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Download full textChan, Maureen Yin Lee; Snell, Robin Stanley – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Through qualitative research, which involved qualitative interviews and focus group meetings with members of four student teams, we identified a number of barriers to the development of cohesiveness in teams of local and international exchange (IE) students, who were undertaking service-learning (SL) together. Lack of cohesiveness in such teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Exchange Programs, Service Learning, Community Organizations
Taniguchi, Norihito; Takai, Jiro; Skowronski, Dariusz – Journal of International Students, 2022
The lack of exchange between international students and host nationals in Japan has long been a pressing issue, yet very little progress has been made to rectify this situation. In this study, we examined this issue by focusing on how international students in Japan perceive cultural contact with their host and home culture members during their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Japanese
Direct linkFantini, Alvino E. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
Given current trends in international education, many institutions of higher education in the United States and elsewhere seek to prepare students for life and careers in a globalized world. For many institutions, this means internationalizing curriculum and campus, increasing educational exchange opportunities (for both domestic and international…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), International Education, Educational Trends
Watson, William R.; Watson, Sunnie Lee; Fehrman, Sarah E.; Yu, Ji Hyun; Janakiraman, Shamila – Journal of International Students, 2020
This study examined students' perceptions of attitudinal learning outcomes and instructional activities within a language and cultural exchange (LACE) course at a midwestern U.S. university and explored whether perceptions differed based on students' prior knowledge, major, and/or demographics. We utilized a mixed-methods approach to gather…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, College Students, Second Language Learning
Burçer, Sibel – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
The aim of this paper is to study the implementation of the ERASMUS programme in Turkey from the perspective of the foreign exchange students. The author conducted a survey which included 112 respondents from 8 Turkish universities. In the survey, the respondents assessed the level of language competence, the existence or the lack of sufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Foreign Students, Language Proficiency
Songkasiri, Amporn; Sarobol, Nopporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This study determined to discover the outcomes that Thai undergraduate pharmacy students gained from participating in the student exchange program. The population in this study contained of 71 Mahidol University undergraduate pharmacy students who participated in the 2014 student exchange program in six host universities in four ASEAN countries…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Exchange Programs, Pharmaceutical Education, Outcomes of Education
Brown, Lorraine; Aktas, Gurhan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2011
This paper presents findings from 11 in-depth interviews with Turkish undergraduate students, who were, by the time of data collection, about to spend a semester at a European university under the Erasmus exchange scheme. The students all agreed to be interviewed about their feelings about studying in a foreign culture, and were found to be…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Culture, Foreign Countries
Stein, Maria; Federspiel, Andrea; Koenig, Thomas; Wirth, Miranka; Lehmann, Christoph; Wiest, Roland; Strik, Werner; Brandeis, Daniel; Dierks, Thomas – Neuropsychologia, 2009
The factors influencing the degree of separation or overlap in the neuronal networks responsible for the processing of first and second language are still subject to investigation. This longitudinal study investigates how increasing second language proficiency influences activation differences during lexico-semantic processing of first and second…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, German, Language Proficiency
FRIEDRICHS, DONALD E.
THIS HANDBOOK IS TO GUIDE SCHOOL PERSONNEL IN DEVELOPING OR EVALUATING STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN HIGH SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY IN MICHIGAN. CHAPTER 1 CONSISTS OF A DISCUSSION OF THE EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL OBJECTIVES FOR EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. CHAPTER 2 LISTS THE PROGRAMS SUCCESSFULLY OPERATING IN MICHIGAN, AND DISCUSSES THE RESPONSIBILITIES…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, High School Students, Language Proficiency, Program Administration
Peer reviewedLussier, Denise; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
A study was conducted to identify appropriate standardized tests of English second-language proficiency among foreign high school students after a three-month stay, for use in a battery of tests to determine achievement gains. Identification of three potential tests and further considerations in selecting the appropriate test are reported here.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Foreign Students
National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Washington, DC. – 1985
A secondary school principals' reference guide provides information on key issues concerning foreign students in the United States both in organized exchange programs and under sponsorship of relatives and friends. The topics discussed include: elements in promoting successful youth exchange programs; admissions and academic placement (initial…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Admission (School), Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries
Stansfield, Charles W. – 1971
To supply the large number of workers qualified for complex jobs, a demand created by the growing needs of a rapidly growing population, Colombia must make provisions for an expanded system of higher education. This can be accomplished by sending students abroad to study at the university level. The large number of students coming to the United…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Improvement
