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Chen, Liang-Hsuan – International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2007
This study seeks to explain why and how international graduate students from East Asia choose to come to Canada to pursue advanced education, to assess the strengths and dynamics of the factors influencing the enrollment decision, and to describe possible implications both for education-exporting countries and universities offering graduate…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, College Choice
Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
This article describes how universities are challenged to beef up study abroad programs in response to the growing need for professionals with a global perspective. Once considered a luxury for affluent White college students, study abroad has been recast in recent years by business, academia and policymakers. Today, they consider it essential to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, College Students, Student Financial Aid
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This article presents an excerpt from the interview of Karen Hughes, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. Hughes discusses the Bush administration's effort to attract foreign students to the United States and to send American students overseas. She also talks about what American colleges and universities can do to help.
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Higher Education, Cultural Awareness
Yao, Chunmei – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Internationalization of higher education institutions has become comprehensive and complex phenomenon in the United States since the 1990s. This trend has significantly motivated American colleges and universities involving all members within their communities to internationalize their institutions and increase their global competitiveness. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Research Universities, International Educational Exchange
Vande Berg, Michael; Connor-Linton, Jeffrey; Paige, R. Michael – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2009
Six years ago, Georgetown University's Office of International Programs, together with partner institutions, designed a large-scale, multi-year study of U.S. student learning abroad. The data support three broad conclusions with significant implications for study abroad policies and practices. This analysis concentrates for the most part on one…
Descriptors: International Programs, Learning Strategies, Study Abroad, Consortia
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Armstrong, Neill F. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2008
In this article, I address the following question: How, in a time of shrinking budgets and reduced graduation timelines, are university teacher preparation programs to best address the issue of global literacy for future teachers? In an effort to begin addressing this challenge, the College of Education at Stephen F. Austin State University…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Education, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
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Relyea, Clint; Cocchiara, Faye K.; Studdard, Nareatha L. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2008
This study examines university students' motivations for participating in a study abroad program. Specifically, the study seeks to understand the conditions in which students with a high risk propensity will be more likely to participate in an international experience. Further, it investigates how perceived career value will moderate this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, College Students, Student Motivation
Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
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Scheib, Michele – Community College Journal, 2007
Research suggests that 40 percent of college-age students with disabilities in the United States are enrolled in community colleges. Two-year colleges for a long time have been billed as ideal places for students with special needs to continue their educations, especially when those needs dictate that they remain closer to home. However, some…
Descriptors: Special Programs, Community Colleges, Disabilities, Labor Market
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Kruse, Julia; Brubaker, Cate – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
This article discusses components that can make study abroad programs more effective so that students successfully improve their language and culture competency and gain a more sophisticated understanding of the host culture. First, the authors offer ideas for language instructors at home on how to integrate culture learning into the classroom and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Program Effectiveness
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Block, David – Modern Language Journal, 2007
Although Firth and Wagner (1997) did not explicitly discuss the issue of identity in second language acquisition (SLA) research, their article was symptomatic of a general trend to open up SLA to social theory and sociological and sociolinguistic research, which in turn led some researchers to explore links between second language (L2) learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Researchers
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Karaman, A. Cendel; Tochon, Francois V. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This article explores international student teaching (IST) within the narratives of a prospective language teacher from the midwestern region of the United States. With a focus on one participant, the case study highlights significant factors that relate to the IST experience in Ecuador. A corpus generated from verbal protocols collected over a…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Foreign Students, Student Teachers, Public Schools
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Jackson, Jane – Intercultural Education, 2009
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after 14 weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Ethnography
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Ford, Keith – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
In this study, I explore the experiences of five Japanese returnees ("kikokushijo"). The participants recorded taped monologues or wrote narratives reflecting on their time spent living abroad and of returning to Japan. These retrospective life stories revealed four prominent themes of conflict: group orientation; bullying and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Conflict
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Light, Richard; Georgakis, Steve – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
This paper contributes to research on the scholarship of teaching in the physical education/sport studies fields by examining the responses of study abroad students from overseas studying in Australia to a unit of study in sport studies that placed the interpretation of experience as the centre of the learning process. It draws on research…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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