2024
DOI: 10.36366/frontiers.v36i1.855
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From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Story of an Ordinarily Extraordinary Generation Z L2 Student Abroad

Aurore Mroz,
Julia Gorham

Abstract: This longitudinal mixed-methods case study aimed to explain why a seemingly ordinary U.S.-affiliated hyper-connected French language learner (Nancy) achieved extraordinary outcomes after 15 weeks in Paris, compared to fifteen Generation Z peers also enrolled in the program. Framed by Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and social pedagogies, the study adopted a retrodictive approach to “explain after by before” and retrace Nancy’s complex, non-linear trajectories of success. Adapting to new realities of students go… Show more

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