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Suwaed, Hameda – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2018
Although service-learning, as a language teaching strategy, is considered important for developing the college students' academic and soft skills, or personal attributes that people need in order to work with others, including communication skills, empathy, social skills, listening skills and attitudes, it is still a neglected area in the Libyan…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bair, Beth Teagarden – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In 2015, a university in rural Maryland offered an undergraduate service-learning leadership course, which collaborated with a service-learning community of practice. This interdisciplinary leadership course initiated and sustained personal and critical reflection and social interactions by integrating Computer-Medicated Communication (CMC)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Questionnaires, Case Studies
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Buschlen, Eric Lee; Reusch, Jonathan – Journal of College and Character, 2016
Service to others plays a key role in the development of one's worldview. To study this key role, authors examined a sample of 38 student narratives in three phases: before, during, and 45 days after they served at an alternative break site around the United States. Students kept a prompt-based journal inspired by the tenets of the social change…
Descriptors: Social Change, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
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Chao, Xia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Grounded in the whole person perspective of language learners and the concepts of investment and L2 socialization, this qualitative study explores how community service learning (CSL) contributes to international students' L2 practices and identity development. This study finds that CSL creates "a pedagogical contact zone" outside the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Hughes, Carolyn; Steinhorn, Rachel; Davis, Blair; Beckrest, Sara; Boyd, Elizabeth; Cashen, Kelly – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
We investigated whether participation in a university-based, service learning mentoring program could affect college students' learning about social inequities and the effects of poverty. The program we examined combined four critical components: (a) Mentor training, (b) mentoring youth on-site in their high-poverty environments, (c) mentors'…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Mentors, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Service Learning
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Seilstad, Brian – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
This article describes the theoretical and pedagogical background and results from the first semester of a service-learning program for English learners at a public Moroccan university and the local high school. This study fills a gap in the literature related to service-learning practice and outcomes in Morocco and the Arab world in general. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh; Carfoot, Gavin – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This article will discuss the ways in which community service learning programs in music can foster meaningful collaborations between universities and Indigenous communities. Drawing on recent pedagogical literature on service learning and insights from a four-year partnership between Australian Indigenous musicians at the Winanjjikari Music…
Descriptors: Musicians, Cooperation, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Grim, Frederique – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Many college students feel that learning a second language (L2) is necessary to bring value to their future. However, many also feel that during their years of learning an L2, the only experience they acquire starts when they enter the classroom and stops when they leave it. This view may bring a lack of engagement in learning the L2. Research has…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Service Learning, French
Malkin, Fran – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of service learning experiences on participants' attitudes towards the Spanish language and culture and their language proficiency. It was hypothesized that using the Spanish language outside the confines of the academic environment would affect participants' attitudes and have an impact on their language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Service Learning