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Escamilla, Kathy; Aragon, Lorenso; Franquiz, Maria – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2009
This article reports findings of a Study in Mexico program and its potential for transforming teacher beliefs and observations about schooling in Mexico. This particular program has been in existence for 17 years; however, findings for this study are limited to data collected during two consecutive summers. The study was qualitative in design, and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Study Abroad
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Santamaria, Lorri J.; Santamaria, Cristina C.; Fletcher, Todd V. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
This study investigated pre-service and credentialed teachers at 2 universities in the Southwestern United States (N = 24), who participated in education-abroad programs in Mexico over 1 summer. This study examined the literature within a framework for developing cultural competence to describe and understand students' experiences. Following a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Storch, Neomy – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
The number of international ESL students completing their degree programs in Australia has risen dramatically in the past decade. One factor that may be motivating students to undertake tertiary studies in Australia is the expectation that this form of immersion will lead to improved English language skills. However, existing research, such as…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Bollag, Burton – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
As the benefits of an international education become more widely recognized, a growing number of young Americans are enrolling in institutions in the British Isles. According to Britain's Higher Education Statistics Agency, in the 2005-2006 academic year, 14,755 Americans were enrolled in degree programs at British institutions, compared with…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits
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Wolf, Gregory H. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
This article discusses a short-term study abroad program conducted in Berlin in English for college students. Guided by the academic goals of developing cultural competence, demonstrating cultural communication, and attaining a basic level of cultural literacy, this program, with its pre- and post-program academic components, offers an alternative…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cultural Literacy, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
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Henze, Yvonne A. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
This article describes an intercultural workshop designed for American students from the University of Rhode Island's International Engineering Program who are going to Germany to work and to study. The activities and goals of the workshop are explained. The outcomes and findings show that participation in the pre-departure intercultural workshop…
Descriptors: Workshops, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication
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Fuller, Thomas L. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
The study reported in this paper investigated the impact of study abroad experiences on graduate theological student intercultural sensitivity and the role that pedagogical approaches play in the development of intercultural sensitivity. It is widely held that study abroad contributes to student development of intercultural sensitivity (Jenkins &…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication
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Wessels, Stephanie; Holmes, Melissa; Herrera, Socorro – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
This microethnographic case study focuses on patterns of interpretation and decision making of undergraduate preservice teachers as they participated in observations, co-teaching, and teaching in elementary schools in northern Mexico. At the core, this study explores the deeply embedded assumptions preservice teachers may bring to new…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Study Abroad, Classroom Techniques, Case Studies
Witte, Arnd, Ed.; Harden, Theo, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2011
This book explores the idea of "intercultural competence", which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a universal definition and "competence" is not only a cognitive construct but also includes psychological traits such as attitudes,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Interpersonal Competence, Second Language Learning, Research
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Purdy, Noel; Gibson, Ken – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The paper evaluates a programme of short alternative placements for final-year B.Ed. students in Northern Ireland, which aims to broaden student teachers' experience and develop their transferable skills. The alternative placement programme is set first in an international context of evolving pre-service field placements and then set in a local…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teachers, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
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Liyanage, Indika; Bartlett, Brendan John – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
Post-training reflections from nine overseas NNES students were recorded in relation to the extent to which they perceived potential applications of what they had learned in a Contextually Responsive Teacher Training (CRTT) programme in the learning-teaching contexts into which they were returning as English as a Second or Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Howard, Martin – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2008
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the variable use of the subjunctive which constitutes a notable "fragile zone" in the spoken French of advanced L2 learners. A comparative approach is adopted to consider the relative impact of naturalistic and instructed L2 exposure in the case of our learner-participants who were Irish university…
Descriptors: Oral Language, French, Study Abroad, Morphology (Languages)
Campbell, Monica – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Nestled in the mountainous, southeastern Mexican state of Puebla, the University of the Americas-Puebla has been a distinguished institution with close ties to the United States. It was a popular study-abroad choice and enjoyed accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. However, under the tenure of Pedro Angel Palou Garcia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Mexicans, Universities
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Cook, Constance Ewing – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
In 2006, the Chinese Ministry of Education sent presidents and party secretaries from its top-ranked universities to the University of Michigan (UM) to learn more about the leadership of research universities. Both the ministry and UM worked hard to make the visit productive, and both parties gained from it. A year later, with the support of the…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Research Universities, Free Enterprise System
Martin, Nathan Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The United States experienced a tremendous expansion of higher education after the Second World War. However, this expansion has not led to a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the admissions process is growing even more selective. In his classic studies of French education and society, Pierre Bourdieu…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Working Class, Middle Class, Recreational Activities
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