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Servet Çelik – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
International and cross-cultural experiences are critical to effectively prepare language teachers for the increasingly diverse classroom, as they promote language proficiency and cultural awareness and sensitivity. This research captures the multi-national engagements of pre-service language teachers enrolled at a Turkish university. Participants…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
Merlak, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines the effect of a virtual exchange experience on the intercultural competence of college students from the United States and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Archival data from the Stevens Initiative was used to test whether 70 students from the United States and 72 students from Iraq and Jordan gained intercultural…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Competence, College Students, Student Exchange Programs

Staiger, Ralph C. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Provides a list of international cooperative programs available to teachers and students. (FL)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Intercultural Programs
AFS International/Intercultural Programs, Inc., New York, NY. – 1982
Ideas and approaches are suggested for the orientation of high school students involved in the international/intercultural programs sponsored by the American Field Service (AFS). The nine documents presented may be copied or adapted for use by AFS national offices as they develop their own materials for orientation of students, host families, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, Culture Contact, High Schools
Hansel, Bettina – 1986
The AFS Impact Study, initiated in 1977, is an attempt to document changes in learning and personal development associated with an intercultural "homestay" program. Completed in 1985, the study identifies several areas in which students show greater learning and educational growth than that shown by a group of students who had expressed interest…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Cultural Opportunities
Stager, Jay – Camping Magazine, 1986
Urges the youth camping movement in the United States to internationalize by vigorously seeking and including children of the world in their summer communities. Provides practical and specific guidelines regarding recruitment of international campers, financial aid, communication with parents, legalities, travel considerations, and adjustment to…
Descriptors: Camping, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Futures (of Society)
Hansel, Bettina; Grove, Neal – 1984
The American Field Service (AFS) Impact Study has documented that adolescents in AFS programs show greater increases in learning and competence than could be expected through the normal maturing process. Research findings on how people learn and under what circumstances explain why an AFS experience accelerates learning. For example, it is known…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Competence, Cultural Awareness

Bronsil, Elizabeth – Montessori Life, 1997
Describes efforts to implement an international program between the Montessori program at Xavier University and Korea and Taiwan. Describes eight challenges confronting the project: (1) communication; (2) class participation; (3) sharing culture with the American students; (4) transportation; (5) connection with others; (6) visas and immigration…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Opportunities, Educational Methods
Reghenzani, Denise M. – 1991
This paper explores many aspects of international travel and study programs, focusing on the part played by such travel programs in the development of higher and adult education. The paper notes the roots of travel/study combinations in the Chautauqua model and the expansion of choices and formats for study abroad in recent times. The increasing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Credits, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange