International audienceThis paper will report on an interdisciplinary project (language sciences, geography, computer science) on the learning of international students during their study abroad. We seek to understand how spatial practices participate in language socialization and thus in the enrichment of linguistic, social and cultural repertoires. Spatial practices deserve to be better considered in the field of language learning (Benson, 2021). The spatial environment of everyday interaction must be understood as a social construction: participants use the space they have available while creating spaces through their discourse and interactions (Jucker et al. 2018). The spatial dimension of everyday life, in its materiality, is at once a ...