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Brown, Alan; Bimrose, Jenny – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The study, upon which this special issue focuses, used narrative interviews to investigate how learning can support workers' transitions in the labour market in five European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). The five countries were chosen to represent very different contexts in the way learning can support career and labour…
Descriptors: Career Change, Labor Market, Interviews, Role of Education
Allen, Heather – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2010
The idea that study abroad (SA) is an ideal context for acquiring language is one largely supported by foreign language (FL) students and their teachers, the latter often recollecting their own successful if not life-transforming sojourns abroad. According to Rivers (1998), SA represents "an environment which most closely resembles the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
Dubreil, Sébastien – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
The purpose of this case study was to examine one learner's (Keira) personal trajectory in an online, transnational telecollaborative learning environment, focusing on how she negotiated (1) her own sense of identity,(2) her perspective on French and American cultures, and (3) the possibility of a transcultural dialogue. The data (observations,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Awareness, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
Teaching American Culture in France: Language Assistants' Identity Construction and Interculturality
Dargent-Wallace, Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the identity and interculturality development of English-language teaching assistants through their perceptions of their experiences living and working in France. The study is framed using Bourdieu's (1979, 2000) notions of habitus and cultural capital, and draws from Byram's (2000) "intercultural mediator" and…
Descriptors: North Americans, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries
Gabaudan, Odette – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Students on the BA International Business and Languages who spend a full academic year on a study visit abroad experience many new challenges such as a different culture, a new university, different academic practices, a foreign language, etc. The assessment methods for the year include the results of the modules taken in the partner universities,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Learning Experience, Case Studies, Questionnaires