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The Effects of Cross-Cultural Communication Education on International Students' Adjustment and Adaptation
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Young, Tony J.; Schartner, Alina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The recent increase in the provision of cross- and intercultural education for sojourners has not been matched by commensurate research into its effects on participants. Evaluation, where undertaken at all, has been largely confined to expatriate business contexts and has tended to be undertaken pre-sojourn. Crucially, evaluation has not engaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment
The Effect of Study Abroad on Intercultural Competence: A Longitudinal Case Study of International Postgraduate Students at a British University
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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