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McRae, Norah; Ramji, Karima; Lu, Linghong; Lesperance, Mary – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Post-secondary institutions spend considerable resources on programs, such as study abroad and international work-integrated learning, which involve students' participation in international experiences. One significant impetus for these programs is the hope that through exposing students to international settings these students will be better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Study Abroad
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Mitchell, Claire – Dimension, 2016
This chapter reports on a qualitative investigation on the development of adult Spanish language learners' intercultural sensitivity while using Web 2.0 technologies to explore living abroad. Comments provided by 33 participants on wikis, Pinterest, and journal entries were analyzed using a line-by-line interpretative approach (Charmaz, 2006).…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Adult Learning, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Biraimah, Karen L. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
This paper, which builds upon research linked to the development of sustainable study abroad programs in emerging nations, focuses on key challenges to true partnerships between emerging and established universities. It begins with an analysis of challenges which may occur when attempting to develop an equitable partnership based on joint grants…
Descriptors: International Studies, International Education, Partnerships in Education, Universities
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Hampton, Cathy; Demeure-Ahearne, Ariane – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper gives account of a project involving Year Abroad students of French at Warwick University challenged to select "realia" from their host countries in order to stimulate enthusiasm for language learning in local schools. It considers the cognitive and affective processes informing the "culture gathering" that took…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizen Participation, Foreign Culture, Study Abroad
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Quince, Eleanor; Minney, James; Medland, Charlotte; Rock, Francesca – Research-publishing.net, 2016
It is readily recognised that "study and residence abroad are significant contexts for second language learning and development" (Mitchell, Tracy-Ventura, & McManus, 2015, p. 1), but the Year Abroad (YA) also provides Modern Foreign Language (MFL) students with a unique opportunity to develop personal and professional skills. YA…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Modern Languages, Transformative Learning
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Hajar, Anas – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
This article provides a qualitative inquiry into the influences of immediate family members (i.e. parents and siblings) on a group of Gulf Arab EFL students regarding their language learning experiences and strategy use in their Arab homelands. The participants came from financially comfortable families, with different levels of education. The…
Descriptors: Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Long, Mary M.; Sandler, Dennis M.; Topol, Martin T. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2017
For business schools, AACSB and Middle States' call for more experiential learning is one reason to provide study abroad programs. Universities must attend to the demand for continuous improvement and employ metrics to benchmark and evaluate their relative standing among peer institutions. One such benchmark is the National Survey of Student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Study Abroad, Holistic Approach
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Shedrow, Stephanie J. – Journal of International Students, 2017
While teacher educators implement diverse student teaching placements for preservice teachers as a means of bridging the cultural mismatch in classrooms around the United States, researchers have only recently begun to tap into the role that preservice teachers' "whiteness" plays in their ideologies. As such, the purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Cross Cultural Training
Stewart, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Unprecedented rapidity of change occurring throughout the higher education sector linked to student mobility driven globalization momentum reinforces the benefits of attracting and cultivating the strongest students to contribute diversity of thought to learning environments. The purpose of this case study was to explore multiple perspectives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Decision Making, Interviews
Li, Xin-Chao; Zhu, Su-Jing; Thige, Joseph M.; Shi, Yun-Yu – Online Submission, 2017
In order to fully grasp the service level, management quality and effectiveness of the overseas education in China, a satisfaction survey was carried out on 44 institutions of higher learning in Jiangsu province from 5 dimensions of school learning, school life, school administration, surrounding environment, and urban civility and environment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Higher Education, Multiple Regression Analysis
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López-Moreno, Cristina – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter will examine the employability profile of outwardly mobile British graduates and the ways in which their international skillset fits the UK labour market. It will draw upon several recent reports to highlight the current shortage of professionals with such global skills. In this context, the chapter will demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, College Graduates
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An, Heejung, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Study abroad programs offer a unique opportunity for students to immerse themselves within different cultural backgrounds as they continue to further their education. By experiencing this first-hand, in-service and pre-service educators are better prepared to address diversity issues within their classrooms. The "Handbook of Research on…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Teachers
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Wadhwa, Rashim – Higher Education for the Future, 2016
In recent years, the overall context of global mobility has significantly changed, so has the strategies to attract international students. What we observe now is the changes in strategies and the emergence of new host countries and increased opportunities for studying abroad. In an intense competitive environment of global higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Student Mobility, Global Approach
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Song, Lulu; Pulverman, Rachel; Pepe, Christina; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Learning a language is more than learning its vocabulary and grammar. For example, compared with English, Spanish uses many more path verbs such as "ascender" ("to move upward") and "salir" ("to go out"), and expresses manner of motion optionally. English, in contrast, has many manner verbs (e.g., "run,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Verbs, Contrastive Linguistics
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Macalister, John – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Language teacher education programmes can be viewed as "change" programmes, particularly in their endeavours to re-shape cognition. However, often such programmes are found to be relatively ineffective in this regard. As a means of facilitating the desired change, trans-national language teacher education programmes, in which students…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Study Abroad, Program Descriptions
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