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Adult Students' Learning and Experiences in a Nonformal Setting: World Languages, Literacies, and Cultures
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Dilnoza F. Khasilova – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine a group of adult students' learning world languages, literacies, and cultures and their experiences in the World Language and Culture Program (WLCP) at a large western land-grant university in the United States during the spring of 2019. I (the author and primary investigator) am the developer and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nonformal Education, Cultural Education, Student Experience
Study Abroad Contexts for Enhanced Foreign Language Learning. Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies (ALCS) Book Series
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Velliaris, Donna M., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Popular opinion has long assumed that learning a foreign language requires not only traditional classroom instruction but also immersion among native speakers of the language. This opinion is so strongly held that students who study through immersion are believed to become more proficient than those who do not. "Study Abroad Contexts for…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Travel, Learner Engagement
Taking Initiative and Constructing Identity: International Graduate Student Spouses' Adjustment and Social Integration in a Rural University Town
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Campbell, Kimeka; Prins, Esther – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses' distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Spouses, Social Integration