Study findings showed that living with a new family in a foreign country has a major and direct impact on the quality of young people's relationships with parents, siblings, and friends. A sample of 300 recently returned AFS students were surveyed; 173 students completed questionnaires. The returned students assessed their communication with their…

The changes in written and spoken Spanish proficiency of two college students during a semester of study in Spain are examined in their oral and written performance and in their grades at a Spanish university. Both students were initially rated, according to American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines, at…

The Lyon (France) Graduate School of Business (ESCL), an institution widely recognized for its training quality and depended on regionally to train executives in international business, requires two traineeships of students of international business, the first of which is linguistic in nature. ESCL requires its graduates to speak English and one…

Initial efforts to internationalize the curricula in two-year colleges in the Pacific Northwest were met with a number of barriers, including an unwillingness by four-year institutions to recognize the two-year college programs and implement revisions of their own programs, funding problems, and state-level skepticism of the need for international…

Educational developments in Mexico, South America, and Southeast Asia are covered in five seminar papers. In addition, country educational profiles are presented on Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. In "International Students from Southeast Asia," John F. Brohm considers the following…

Individual and societal outcomes that result from study in the United States by students from developing countries are considered, and recommendations concerning study in the United States are offered for Third World countries and U.S. institutions. Attention is directed to effects on the individual, the host institution and the United States, the…

The 1981 annual report of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) is presented. IAESTE seeks to provide students at institutions of higher education with technical experience abroad relative to their studies and to promote international understanding among all students. An international report…

Fulbright awards for study abroad for 1981-82 are listed by country and program area, and information is provided on eligibility requirements, application procedure, terms of award, and factors affecting selection for American scholars. Most of the awards listed are for more or less specific fields or disciplines, but some teaching and research…

THE NEED IN LANGUAGE STUDY FOR CULTURAL CONTENT, IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SENSE (I.E., FOR CULTURAL REFERENTS OF LINGUISTIC UNITS), HAS GROWN WITH THE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON ORAL PROFICIENCY AND THE ABILITY TO FUNCTION IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE. INCORPORATING CULTURE INTO THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THE SECONDARY LEVEL BY HAVING THE…

The need for higher education institutions in the U.S. and foreign countries to engage in an exchange of students, faculty members, and educational and cultural information is stressed. The current program of exchanging student and faculty members in Japan and the U.S. is summarized. The use of the College and University Partnership Program (CUPP)…

This sourcebook is the result of a week-long conference of about 50 "Study Abroad Advisors" held in 1974. The workshop and the sourcebook are the first steps toward professionalizing the field of advising U.S. students who wish an overseas experience. The sourcebook is designed as a complement to the Council on International Educational Exchange's…

Franklin College and Institute for European Studies is a small two-year liberal arts college in Switzerland dedicated to "the education of a new kind of international citizen for the last quarter of the 20th century." Accordingly, it is designed to spark interest in and concern for the contemporary scene in Europe so that American…

The book is devoted to a detailed examination of the character, evaluation and selected consequences of a U.S. technical assistance program called "participant training." This program seeks, through education and training of foreign nationals, to develop the needed human resources for economic progress and modernization of traditional social…

To use the world to study reality, the alternative is offered of working in a developing country in place of some of the usual formal classroom course credits. A few universities have tried intern training programs to train Peace Corps (PC) volunteers in special fields; an aim of the program is to determine what part of the PC program can be…