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Wyatt Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many pre-service teachers (PSTs) face a common dilemma when completing their internships: they seek to display their own strengths and competencies in teaching while also adhering to the guidance of their mentor teachers and avoiding instructional risks. The underlying structure of the internship promotes a hierarchy which positions mentoring…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Mentors, Faculty Development
Mussman, Denise Carpenter – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study addresses the process of oral academic socialization that learners of a second language and culture undergo to succeed in disciplinary graduate courses. The participants were students from Mainland China and Taiwan pursuing an International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) degree at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL).…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Oral Language, Socialization, Acculturation
Vollmer Rivera, Alexis – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This linguistic ethnography follows three journalism students (Petra, Penelope, and Maria) as they engaged in experiential language learning (EX-LL) via collaboration with community members during their Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) internship sites in the fields of journalism and medicine within the local Metro Phoenix community. Data were…
Descriptors: Social Change, Community Involvement, Internship Programs, Spanish
Sue Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2020
To keep the United States economically competitive in a rapidly changing world, business leaders are calling for employment candidates who can work efficiently in a globalized context with both language skills and cross-cultural dispositions critical to the economic success of the country. These language proficiency skills and cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs
Curbelo Ruiz, Aurelio – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As the world becomes globalized by the influence of science and technology, academic institutions in Central America must provide international academic and research opportunities that are conductive to multicultural learning for students, faculty, and staff. Public and private universities in Central America are attempting to increase awareness…
Descriptors: College Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Study Abroad, Leadership Role
Liu, Xiao – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The foreign-born Chinese speakers that currently make up the largest component of those training to become Chinese language teachers encounter challenges during their internship that differ significantly from those experienced by interns who are more familiar with U.S. culture and institutions. Qualitative case studies of three Chinese language…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Interviews, Language Teachers, Qualitative Research