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The Chicken or the Egg? Examining the Impacts of a Brief Bilingual Exchange on Willingness to Communicate
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Mady, Callie – Babel, 2011
This study compares the willingness to communicate (WTC) of Canadian Anglophone and Francophone students to measures of their self-assessed, multiskilled second language proficiency and strategy use before and after a short-term intracountry bilingual exchange experience. The central question is whether a student's WTC exists before an opportunity…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Language Skills, Language Proficiency
"In Bare Feet with My Journal": Promoting the Intercultural Development of Young Exchange Students
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Moloney, Robyn; Genua-Petrovic, Rosalba – Babel, 2012
It is increasingly common for schools to form partnerships with schools in the countries of languages learned in the classroom. While there has been substantial investigation of language and culture learning in the context of tertiary study abroad, there has been limited research attention to pedagogical interventions which may support learning in…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Exchange Programs, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
The Goethe Institute
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Horan, R. – Babel, 1971
Descriptors: Cultural Context, German, Second Language Learning, Student Exchange Programs
Teaching in a Chinese High School.
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Purvis, Kathy – Babel, 2001
An Australian English teacher discusses her experiences as a teacher on a teacher exchange to a high school in Zouping, China. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools, Second Language Instruction
The Australian Student in Germany
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Borgert, Udo; Moulden, Kenneth – Babel, 1970
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture, Foreign Students, German