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"If It Makes You Happy… It Can't Be That Bad": An Explanatory Study of Students' Well-Being during International Exchange
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Timo Homburg; Vincent Homburg – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2021
This study reports on adolescents' experiences as exchange students in the Rotary Youth Exchange program. Based on a literature review and multivariate analysis of original survey data collected from 408 exchange students from 40 home countries that had spent a year in one out of 37 destination countries, the study concludes that students'…
Descriptors: Well Being, Student Exchange Programs, Social Support Groups, Language Proficiency
Varied Musical Experiences and Openness of University Students in Turkey and the United States
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Bulut, Mustafa Hilmi; Fung, Chi-Keung Victor; Lehmberg, Lisa J.; Kindap Tepe, Yeliz; Hernly, Patrick; Özgül, Yusuf; Mehdiyev, Esmira; Kaptan, Zekeriya – SAGE Open, 2022
The personality trait of openness has been shown to contribute to a person's ability to function effectively. Additionally, scholars have suggested that openness to experience and foreign language experience were related to music preference. Extending from earlier scholarship, this study examined the relationship between openness to experience and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)
More than Meets the Ear: Individual Differences in Trait and State Willingness to Communicate as Predictors of Language Learning Performance in a Chinese EFL Context
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Zhang, Jiayi; Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Chinese students are frequently seen as passive learners because of their apparent reluctance to speak, particularly in English classrooms. However, this impression seems to reflect a stereotype which is likely to confound willingness to communicate (WTC) and communication behaviour. In this article we argue for more attention to be paid to…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
When the Cheese Moves: How Arab and Jewish Education Students Perceive the Transition to Distance Practical Teaching during the COVID-19 Crisis
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Majadly, Haifaa; Nikritin, Daniel – International Education Studies, 2022
The goal of the current study was to examine teaching students' positions and perceptions regarding the transition to an online format for practical teaching during COVID-19, and whether differences exist between Jewish and Arab students' positions. The study also examines teaching students' technological and pedagogical self-efficacies for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
The Bi-Personal Bilingual: A Study of the Perceived Feeling of a Changed Self
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Mijatovic, Marko; Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
It has been a topic in psychiatry, it is referred to by translingual writers, and bilinguals report it frequently -- the feeling of becoming a different person when using a different language. The present study was set out to investigate the reasons behind this feeling. We looked at the effects of biculturalism and personality traits, as well as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Psychiatry
Parenting and Infant Temperament amongst Pakistani Women Living in the UK According to Country of Birth: Results from the Born in Bradford Cohort Study
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Prady, Stephanie L.; Kiernan, Kathleen; Fairley, Lesley; Wright, John – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Some parenting behaviours and child characteristics can result in future behavioural problems. Relatively little is known about parenting behaviours in Pakistani-origin women, and how the timing of migration to the United Kingdom might affect such behaviours. We analysed differences in parenting behaviours and six-month infant temperament by…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Individual Characteristics, Behavior Problems
What Inclusive Dispositions Contribute to Culturally Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Students' Success?
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Farnsworth, Megan; Mackenzie, Jacqueline Zaleski – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Correlational research investigated relationships between PreService Teachers' dispositions and success with Culturally Linguistically Diverse Exceptional (CLDE) students, addressing disproportionality and multicultural teacher preparation. Results show a significant correlation between Inclusive Dispositional Self-Assessment scores (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Personality Traits, Inclusion, Cultural Differences