Konig2020

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Konig2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Konig2020
Author(s) Clelia König
Title Outreach and Collaboration with Au-Pair Girls in Home Employment Settings
Editor(s) Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste
Tag(s) EMCA, Second language acquisition, Home working setting, Au pairs, Study abroad
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2020
Language English
City Cham
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Pages 217-247
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-34671-3_9
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Howpublished
Book title Language Research in Multilingual Settings: Doing Research Knowledge Dissemination at the Sites of Practice
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Abstract

This chapter presents the first step of the application of research findings in the world of praxis. After a first period of research in the field of home working with au-pairs and some first considerations about the usability of research outputs from the domains of conversation analysis and discourse study, the chapter illustrates several steps that have been undertaken to contact and inform different stakeholders. Specifically, recruiting agencies as well as prospective au-pairs are seen to be the most important interlocutors for a dialogue with the researchers. However, several difficulties and issues have arisen, that demonstrate how complex the home working setting is and how much work still needs to be done for improving the information exchange between the research field and the real world.

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