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Miller, Kari Knutson; Gonzalez, Amber M. – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
This paper examines outcomes associated with participation in short-term, international internship experiences. Results suggest short-term international internship experiences contribute to rich personal and professional development outcomes. Findings highlight participant challenges associated with initial internship experiences, professional…
Descriptors: Child Development, Internship Programs, Faculty Development, Experiential Learning
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Schartner, Alina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Educational sojourns abroad are not only increasingly popular; it is also believed that they have many positive outcomes for students. The transformative potential of a study sojourn abroad has been claimed in linguistic and broader intercultural terms (e.g. Brown [2009] "The Transformative Power of the International Sojourn: An Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Outcomes of Education
Surtees, Victoria – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2016
Study Abroad (SA) has long enjoyed the unquestioning support of the general public, governments, and its benefits for language learning in many ways have been naturalized as "common sense" (Twombly et al., 2012). Language ideology scholars would say that this naturalization itself is indication that there are strong ideological forces at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
Bathke, Amber; Kim, Ryoka – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2016
Student mental health is a significant concern on US college campuses, however, what happens when those campuses go global? The experience of those who work in the international education field suggests that the percentage may be even higher than on campus, since culture shock, homesickness, and stress can trigger anxiety, depression, or other…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Mental Health, College Students, International Education
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Lo, William Yat Wai; Ng, Felix Sai Kit – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
This argument in this study is that the descriptive dimension of the concept of education hub, which focuses on the importance of connectivity in enhancing the competiveness of a place, is inadequate in addressing the educational values in globalising higher education. Therefore, it attempts to initiate a normative dimension of education hub…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, College Students
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Earnest, David R.; Rosenbusch, Katherine; Wallace-Williams, Devin; Keim, Alaina C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Despite the prominence of study abroad programs, few are offered in the field of psychology. The current study sought to investigate the impact of study abroad programs in psychology through a comparison of study abroad and domestic student cultural competencies. Participants included 104 undergraduate students enrolled in either a psychology…
Descriptors: Psychology, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Comparative Analysis
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Choi, Yoonjung; Shin, Eui-Kyung – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This study explores the experiences of 34 US social studies teachers who participated in a cross-cultural professional development in South Korea, and the impact of the programme on the participant teachers' perceptions and practices of global education. Drawing upon a postcolonial lens, this mixed-method study takes a critical look at (a) how…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Faculty Development, Study Abroad, Global Education
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Diao, Wenhao – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article reports on the peer socialization of gendered Mandarin practices between three American students and their Chinese roommates in a college dorm in China. Gender is often perceived to be a salient identity category among adult L2 learners overseas. Drawing on the language socialization framework (Ochs and Schieffelin 1984), this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Socialization, Mandarin Chinese
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Gutierrez, Amanda – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Teacher training for developing nation contexts is often conducted in short, intensive inside and outside-of-country programmes. Concerns have been raised in relation to the uncritical take-up of the western-centric material provided by these programmes, which are usually funded by national and international government organizations. This paper…
Descriptors: Ideology, Learning Experience, Inservice Teacher Education, Study Abroad
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Baker, Will – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
The increasingly international orientation of many higher education (HE) institutes and the growing role of English as an academic lingua franca have far-reaching implications for how we conceptualise universities and student mobility. In this paper, it is argued that the complexity and diversity of languages, communities and cultures present in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Language Role
Parkhouse, Hillary; Turner, Alison McGlinn; Konle, Stephanie; Rong, Xue Lan – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2016
The growing cultural and linguistic diversities in Western countries and rapid globalization have put urgent demands on K-16 schools in terms of developing strategies to accommodate these changes. One of the critical issues for schools is to prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to work effectively with their diverse student populations. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teaching, Student Diversity, Cultural Awareness
Prohn, Seb M.; Kelley, Kelly R.; Westling, David L. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Postsecondary education programs have increased opportunities for students with and without intellectual disabilities to study abroad as inclusive classes. Using open-coding qualitative techniques, the authors examined an inclusive study abroad group's daily reflective journals during a study abroad trip to London and Dublin. Three shared…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Inclusion, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Fierke, Kerry K.; Lepp, Gardner A.; Bastianelli, Karen; Vogelsang, Lisa; Tornabene, Ladona – Current Issues in Education, 2016
The article describes a student-centered approach to generating meaningful learning outcomes in a short-term study abroad program. A practice named Intention/Reflection (I/R) was used to help students to identify, articulate, and reflect upon learning objectives that were personally meaningful, within the broader framework of the intended outcomes…
Descriptors: Intention, Reflection, Study Abroad, Behavioral Objectives
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Leutwyler, Bruno; Meierhans, Claudia – Intercultural Education, 2016
This contribution provides empirical answers to the question of how teaching-specific competencies develop during participation in an international student exchange programme. The quantitative analyses of this quasi-experimental study suggest that, generally speaking, no specific developments occur during an exchange experience. These findings…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, International Educational Exchange, Statistical Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Lindseth, Martina – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This study examines the effects of form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisition of subject-verb inversion word order in declarative sentences in German. A group of U.S. college students who participated in a semester-long study abroad program in Germany and were comparable in terms of preprogram oral proficiency levels and accuracy scores in…
Descriptors: German, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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