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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
Teacher Candidates' Intercultural Communication in Telecollaboration: Locating Acts of Positioning in Translingual Negotiations
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Baburhan Uzum; Bedrettin Yazan; Sedat Akayoglu; Ufuk Keles – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine how teacher candidates (TCs) in Türkiye and the USA navigate their intercultural communication skills in a telecollaboration project. Design/methodology/approach: Forty-eight TCs participated (26 in Türkiye and 22 in the USA) in the study. TCs discussed critical issues in multicultural education on an online…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes
'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
The Development of Social Relations during Residence Abroad
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Mitchell, Rosamond – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Language students in the UK undertake their "year abroad" with high hopes for a linguistic and social "immersion" experience. However, past research shows that language learning success, while real, can be uneven, and that many Erasmus exchange students form social relations largely with other international students. New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Residential Programs, Immersion Programs
How to Have a Successful Fulbright.
Winokur, Marshall – 1979
The Fulbright-Hays Teaching Exchange with Germany is a one-for-one exchanqe for approximately twenty pairs of American and German teachers. American elementary and secondary school teachers as well as college instructors and assistant professors replace their German counterparts for an academic year at either a "Hauptschule" (a…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs
Expecting the Worst (or the Best!). What Exchange Programs Should Know about Student Expectations. Occasional Papers in Intercultural Learning, Number 16.
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Rohrlich, Beulah F. – 1993
Approximately 500 undergraduate students, representing colleges and universities across the United States, who were about to embark on a semester-long credit-bearing sojourn sponsored by Syracuse University (New York) to one of four locations (London, Strasbourg, Madrid, and Florence) were surveyed about their aspirations and attitudes regarding…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Exchange, Expectation