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Bird, Barbara Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Reading literature in a foreign language (FL) requires a learner to move beyond decoding simple meanings and phrases to analysis and interpretation of multiple meanings. It also involves the development of a global understanding of a text's significance, which entails participation in a complex social practice, situated in cultural, linguistic,…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Processes
Woolf, Michael – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2011
Western Europe has been constructed in the field of education abroad as a "traditional" location: in some sense or another that label is used to suggest that it has a kind of static or dormant significance. In reality, Western Europe is an enormously rich location for study abroad precisely because it is a fluid learning environment that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Culture, Educational Environment