"Based on both qualitative and quantitative data, this pioneering book explores the concepts of second language advancedness (L2) in the context of higher education's need to meet the challenges of an increasingly globalized world. Comprehensive yet engaging, it is essential reading for instructors of L2 language, literature and culture alike"--

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. On Actors, Architecture, and L2 Advancedness in Higher Education; Part I. Advancedness and the L2 Learner: Student Beliefs and Awareness Regarding Advancedness; 2. Advancedness, Advanced Proficiency, and L2-Spanish Learner Identity; 3. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Learners' Beliefs Regarding Advanced L2- Spanish and Their Perceptions of Advancedness; 4. Can L2 Learners Imagine Advancedness? A Qualitative Study of Language Awareness and the Development of L2 Identity; Part II. Variable Notions of Advancedness: Institutional, Professional, and Social Perspectives; 5. Language Departments' Architecture, Ideology, and Mission Regarding L2 Advancedness; 6. A Quantitative Analysis of Variability in Perceptions of L2 Advancedness Among Practitioners, Researchers, and Administrators in Higher Education; 7. A Qualitative Analysis of Language Professionals' Descriptions of Their Ideology and Assessment of Advanced L2 Spanish; Part III. Assessment, Identity, and Critical Language Awareness as Markers of Advancedness: 8. Assessing Advancedness in the Age of Identity Construction and Global Citizenship; 9. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Identity and Critical Language Awareness; 10. Imagining Global Citizenship and Intercultural Competence: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of L2 Learner Perceptions and Behavior in Contexts of Identity Co-Construction; 11. Sociocognitive Awareness of L2 Advancedness in Higher Education: A New Parlance for a Changing World; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.