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Morris, Kimberly Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study abroad (SA) context is often assumed to foster pragmatic development in a second language (L2), yet previous scholarship confirms that pragmatic norms are culturally-shaped and often remain imperceptible to uninstructed SA students (Bataller, 2010; Cohen & Shively, 2007; Shively, 2010). Because pragmatics is not traditionally taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Task Analysis, Spanish
Loveless, Tom – Brookings Institution, 2017
This Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education is the sixth and final edition in the third volume and the 16th issue overall. The series began in 2000. As in the past, the report comprises three studies. Also in keeping with tradition, the first section features recent results from state, national, or international assessments; the second…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bryla, Pawel – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This article aims to identify selected determinants of migration among former international student mobility participants. It is based on a large-scale online survey (2450 completed questionnaires) distributed among all Polish alumni who took part in Erasmus mobility for studies 5-6 years before. The survey was conducted in 2012. We apply…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Alumni
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Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J.; Stone, Michaela P; Mella, Roberto Mora; Henríquez, Francisco Olave; Palma, Macarena Yacoman – Education Sciences, 2019
This article provides an empirical context for the role that bi/multi-lingual children and families may play in supporting pre-service and in-service educators engaging difference through a literacy and language situated study abroad internship in Chile. Drawing on data over a 15-year longitudinal study of the program, the authors examine how…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xie, Dong; Kong, Ning; Skaggs, Sydney; Yang, Anbo – Journal of Career Development, 2019
Contextual factors have received increased attention in understanding the challenges and difficulties in translating career education and career guidance services from Western societies to non-Western societies, many of which are undertaking a shift from a socialist and collectivistic system to a more individualistic one. In this article, using…
Descriptors: Career Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context
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Tsang, Eileen Yuk-ha – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
This article examines how and why the Chinese second-generation middle class, who are unable to obtain admission in China's premier universities, turn their back on other public universities and instead attend private universities in their country. It finds that their parents capitalize on their privileged "guanxi" (connections) to send…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Middle Class, Social Mobility
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Guo, Chun; Porschitz, Emily T.; Alves, Jose – Career Development International, 2013
Purpose: Drawing on career and self-initiated expatriation/repatriation literatures, this paper aims to examine the career experiences of Chinese self-initiated repatriates after their return to China. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted an exploratory, qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with 20 Chinese individuals who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Interviews, Study Abroad
Patterson, Timothy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study is an examination of the stories four social studies teachers told after participating in one international professional development program. Drawing on theories of postcolonialism, this narrative inquiry uses interviews, observations, and artifacts to investigate if and to what degree travel to and study in China influences the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Study Abroad, Global Education
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Lee, Mun Woo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This study examines the English ideologies of Korean early study-abroad students' parents in Gangnam, one of the most affluent areas in South Korea. The data collected were drawn from in-depth individual interviews with 23 parents, and subjected to critical discourse analysis. The findings showed that the issue of class was foregrounded…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Taguchi, Naoko; Xiao, Feng; Li, Shuai – Intercultural Education, 2016
Participants were 109 American college students studying Chinese in a study-abroad programme in Beijing. Following Kelley and Meyer, intercultural competence was defined as cross-cultural adaptability involving four dimensions (emotional resilience, flexibility/openness, perceptual acuity and personal autonomy) and was measured with a survey. A…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Chinese, Second Language Learning, College Students
Anderson, Christine L.; Lorenz, Karl; White, Michael – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2016
In the United States post 9/11, there is increasing interest by the government and by institutions of higher education in educating students and citizens to more successfully navigate difference and interact in an increasingly connected world. This has led to a rise in the number of U.S. American students studying abroad especially on…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Multicultural Education, Study Abroad, International Education
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Karelina, Irina Georgievna; Sobolev, Alexander Borisovich; Sorokin, Sviatoslav Olegovich – Russian Education & Society, 2016
The article discusses the deployment of a comprehensive reporting and monitoring framework used to evaluate the performance of state and private higher education institutions in Russia. By referring to diversified indicators including organizational, financial and economic, training, research, graduate employment, and other metrics, the authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Public Colleges
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Di Silvio, Francesca; Diao, Wenhao; Donovan, Anne – Modern Language Journal, 2016
Examining speech samples from 75 American university students learning 1 of 3 languages (Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish), this article reports on a study of second language (L2) learners' oral fluency development and its relationship with their gains in holistic proficiency ratings during a semester abroad. In study abroad research, there is a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Study Abroad, Case Studies
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Takaya, Kentei – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2016
With the growing mobility of international students in Asia and the Pacific, Taiwan has become actively involved in promoting international academic exchange. This research investigates the experience of exchange students from the Philippines and mainland China and examines their needs while studying in Taiwan. Qualitative in-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Exchange Programs, Foreign Students, Student Needs
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Clothey, Rebecca A. – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2016
This paper looks at an alternative curriculum model for study abroad designed specifically to address some of the needs of non-traditional students enrolled in an online education program. In order to meet the needs of non-traditional students and provide quality international programming for them, it is necessary first to understand their…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Nontraditional Education, Educational Quality, International Education
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