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Mason, Jonathan; Hachena, Narjess – Educational Action Research, 2023
This paper presents a two-year pedagogical, teacher-as-researcher, action research project at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia, which investigates how the integration of the Soliya Connect Program, a facilitated dialogic online exchange programme, with a theoretical course on critical intercultural communication…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Action Research, Outcomes of Education
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Johnson, Esko – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This study utilises the 'small story' approach to investigate metaphor in mobile students' narratives of intercultural experience. Metaphor in narrative is seen as a dynamic, discursive, and sociocognitive phenomenon. The narrative accounts presented in this paper derive from interviews conducted for mobility project evaluation. The participants…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Intercultural Communication, Figurative Language, Personal Narratives
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Johnson, Erica – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Foreign language telecollaboration pairs learners so that they may improve their language and intercultural skills. A lesser known model, intergenerational telecollaboration, uses senior citizens as native language partners instead of peers. This paper presents the results of an intergenerational videoconferencing project between learners in…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Intercultural Communication, Older Adults, Videoconferencing
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Castillo-Scott, Aurora – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper describes a TeleTandem language exchange project between English speaking Spanish students at Georgia College, USA, and Spanish speaking English students at Universidad de Concepción, Chile. The aim of the project was to promote linguistic skills and intercultural competence through a TeleTandem exchange. Students used Skype and Google…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Deshaies, Denise; Hamers, Josiane – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Presents the results of an evaluation of the effect of short interethnic exchange programs on attitudes and motivations linked to second language learning. Analyzes the results obtained in three experiments, showing that the attitudinal/motivational variables are positively influenced by this type of exchange. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
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Hanna, Gila; Smith, Anthony H. – 1979
An in-progress research project evaluating the first phase of two-year bilingual exchange programs is described. The exchange programs being evaluated are a summer exchange between groups of school children from schools in Quebec and Ontario and a school-year exchange between groups of children from schools in the same provinces. The objectives of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, English (Second Language)
Grittner, Frank M. – 1979
The program evaluated here involved a two-way exchange of students and teachers from a school in Mainz and two high schools in Madison, Wisconsin. Homestay and cultural touring were outstanding aspects of the program. To measure the impact of the program on American participants, tests and questionnaires were administered before and after the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, German
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Ganderton, Roger – On-Call, 1997
Discusses how e-mail correspondence should be supported and integrated into the overall second language learning program. Reviews a telematics international e-mail exchange project, focusing on the documentation of integration of the project into the overall language program. Findings reveal that the strength of this work is in showing how its…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Documentation, Educational Technology, Electronic Mail
Bicknese, Gunther
This report is based on three separate evaluative surveys. The first compares students' attitudes and opinions before and after the junior year abroad in several areas: (1) attitude toward Germany; (2) integration patterns; (3) religion; (4) politics; (5) the use of tobacco and alcohol, and sexual morality; (6) culture; (7) comparison of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, German, Language Instruction