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Facilitating Intercultural Competence Development in Virtual Exchange: The Student-Generated Survey
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Andrew Johnson; Hülya Tuncer – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Virtual exchange (VE) has gained prominence as a means to improve students' intercultural competence and foreign language abilities through forums and other supplemental activities. This study examines a supplemental activity referred to as the student-generated survey (SGS) implemented in the IVEProject, a large-scale VE with, at the time of this…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Student Exchange Programs, Intercultural Communication, Multicultural Education
'A More Inclusive Mind towards the World': English Language Teaching and Study Abroad in China from Intercultural Citizenship and English as a Lingua Franca Perspectives
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Fang, Fan (Gabriel); Baker, Will – Language Teaching Research, 2018
With the status of English as a global lingua franca (ELF), English is no longer the sole property of its Anglophone native English speakers (NES) problematizing the current dominance of Anglophone cultures and NES in the field of English language teaching (ELT). The notion of intercultural citizenship education offers a critical alternative model…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Intercultural Communication
Students as a Resource for Introducing Intercultural Education in Business Schools
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Gordon, Michael E.; Newburry, William E. – Intercultural Education, 2007
Despite a recognized need for a global mindset, opportunities for US business school students to gain hands-on diversity training regarding intercultural issues remain rare. The reasons for this neglect include a lack of agreement on how to teach intercultural awareness and a paucity of faculty qualified to do so. In order to introduce…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Intercultural Communication, Cross Cultural Training, Sensitivity Training
Multicultural Environmental Education--Making Connections.
Gaughan, Sharon – PAEE Journal, 1996
Discusses Raptors Connecting Cultures (RCC), a multicultural environmental education program for Latino students. The RCC Program attempted to make connections between local ecology in eastern Pennsylvania and the students' home countries using the concept of migration as a link. Encourages the inclusion of contributions and connections from…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Opportunities, Ecology
Literature Review: Studies of the Impact of a Travel-Abroad Experience. Research Report #28.
Hansel, Bettina – 1984
More than 8,000 secondary school students participated in the AFS International exchange programs in 1983, and this document examines some of the research that investigates the impact of travel abroad and intercultural experiences on personality development. Cigdem Kagitcibasi, in a study of the effects of a 10-month program on student…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Evaluation Problems, Global Approach, Intercultural Communication
Cross-Cultural Learning in K-12 Schools: Foreign Students as Resources.
National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Washington, DC. – 1982
Approaches to the effective use of foreign students as educational resources within the elementary or secondary school classroom to increase international understanding among Americans are addressed. Brief descriptions are presented of programs that infuse an international dimension into all aspects of the curriculum. The following long-term,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Class Activities, Cultural Education, Cultural Exchange