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Preparing an Intercultural Program for University Studies Abroad
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Zumbihl, Helene – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
This article focuses on how to teach intercultural communicative competence to learners of English as a foreign language enrolled in a university exchange program in Europe, and help them become "intercultural speakers." The intercultural speaker can be defined as an intermediary between his or her own culture and the other's culture.…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
A Successful Overseas Exchange Program.
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Gerardi, Robert J.; And Others – Clearing House, 1992
Describes the process by which one high school in New Jersey successfully set up an overseas exchange program with a school in Great Britain. Gives specific details to be considered and lists the benefits of such a program. (HB)
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Programs
Globalism on the High School Level.
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Presutti, Robert M. – Clearing House, 1997
Describes the International Sibling Program at Lewiston-Porter High School in Youngstown, New York. Notes that 10 "sibling schools" in eight countries participate by exchanging faculty and students. Suggests that the program has given students, staff, and the community many opportunities to interact with the real world. (RS)
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Global Approach, High Schools
Joining the Global Community.
Cawley, John; Knoester, Jocelyn – Education Canada, 2002
Canada World Youth enables young Canadians to live in another part of Canada with youths from a developing country for several months while volunteering in community projects. Then they move as a group to the partner country for several months where the program structure is the same. Participants acquire the skills and values necessary to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Exchange Programs, Experiential Learning
College and University Partnership Program. 1978 Project Report.
College and Univ. Partnership Program, Inc., Memphis, TN. – 1978
The College and University Partnership Program was designed to facilitate partnership arrangements between American private colleges and regional state universities and comparable Japanese universities. The two-year program has two main areas of activity--completion of surveys on higher education in the two nations and the development of pilot…
Descriptors: Colleges, Comparative Education, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs
Organizations Involved in Soviet-American Relations. Handbook.
Forum Inst., Washington, DC. – 1983
Non-governmental U.S. organizations involved in U.S.-USSR studies and exchange activities are described. A total of 187 groups identified as being engaged to some degree in Soviet-American work were sent questionnaires. The response rate was 70 percent. Descriptions of the 131 responding groups are provided in organizational profiles that comprise…
Descriptors: Budgets, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Foreign Policy
Inter-American Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1936-1948. Cultural Relations Programs of the U.S. Department of State: Historical Studies, Number 2.
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Espinosa, J. Manuel – 1976
Focusing upon the role of the United States government in furthering educational and cultural relations with other nations, the book presents a history of cooperative exchange between the United States and Latin America from 1936-48. The report, based upon primary source material in the form of communications between the Department of State and…
Descriptors: American History, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Culture Contact