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Emerging Questions about Study Abroad.
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Wilkinson, Sharon – ADFL Bulletin, 2000
Confirms the advantages of immersion in a foreign language in a study abroad context, but points out some of the problems that arise for individual students. Highlights the difficulties two students encountered in their stays with French families: they were uncomfortable with their hosts, barely spoke French, and were led to misinterpret French…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education
Serving the Mission: A Study-Abroad and Service-Learning Case Study.
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Ward, Jenifer K. – ADFL Bulletin, 2003
Describes two study abroad programs based on service learning at the Centers of Lutheran Reformation in Germany. Participants not only fulfilled community needs but also forged individual relationships that helped them reflect on global and economic issues that they could not have understood from classroom lectures alone. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Descriptions