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Andreana Pastena; Albert Sesé; Mireia Trenchs-Parera – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
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Dennen, Vanessa P.; Yalcin, Yasin; Hur, Jaesung; Screws, Bruce – Online Learning, 2022
This study presents findings from a survey of 2298 university students from three countries (South Korea, Turkey, United States) focused on their use of and beliefs about webcams to support synchronous learning, including behaviors such as turning cameras on and multitasking. Additionally, it explores differences due to national culture, school…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Norms
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Tara D. Hudson; Alyssa N. Rockenbach – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
The college years represent a prime opportunity for students to develop prosocial skills through friendships that cross social boundaries (i.e., in which the two friends differ on at least one aspect of sociocultural identity such as race, political affiliation, or religion). By cultivating empathy and reducing social stratification, these…
Descriptors: College Students, College Environment, Student Diversity, Peer Relationship
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El-Haddad, Joyce; Prvan, Tania; Štrkalj, Goran – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2021
Many medical schools practice commemorative ceremonies to honor body donors. Attitudes of medical education stakeholders toward these ceremonies have not yet been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to explore anatomy students' attitudes toward commemorations at a multicultural institution which has not introduced these ceremonies yet. A…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Anatomy, Medical Students, Human Body
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Hudson, Tara D.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Mayhew, Matthew J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Supporting students' friendships across social boundaries is one powerful way in which colleges and universities can contribute to the civic mission of higher education. Using data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), a national, multi-institutional study, we examined how institutional conditions…
Descriptors: College Students, Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship, World Views
Jessica L. Colston – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study used self-curated photo elicitation to express students' awareness of power, privilege, and identity. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore how female undergraduate students interacted with their environment and conceptualized a critical understanding of global citizenship. As such, this inquiry asked: (1) To what…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship, Study Abroad, Cultural Differences
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Atabek, Oguzhan – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2019
This study examines the relationship between personal differences and use of Facebook by pre-service teachers and compares the results from Turkey and the U.S. In addition to the "big five" personality traits, attitude, motivation, and specific motives are also examined among personal differences. The sample consisted of 762 pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Preservice Teachers, Cultural Differences
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Zhang, Jiayi; Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Chinese students are frequently seen as passive learners because of their apparent reluctance to speak, particularly in English classrooms. However, this impression seems to reflect a stereotype which is likely to confound willingness to communicate (WTC) and communication behaviour. In this article we argue for more attention to be paid to…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Gafni, Ruti; Goldstein, Anat – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2020
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to discover usage differences in task performance by students of different cultures, by examining procrastination patterns from a national cultural perspective and exploring the effect of multicultural virtual teamwork on students' individual procrastination. Background: This study aims to examine…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Time Management, Intercultural Communication, Online Courses
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Kirschner, Vladka; Peltan, Tomáš – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Urban planning is a practical multifarious discipline and thus teamwork competence is important for urban planners. Cooperative learning is a possible method of obtaining this competence in the education process. Our aim is to investigate the cooperative learning method on the Urban Planning undergraduate course at the Faculty of Environmental…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Urban Planning, Foreign Countries, Teamwork
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Mwangi, Chrystal A. George – Journal of International Students, 2016
This study elucidates the experiences of HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) students who are racially Black, but differ in nativity and nationality from their Black American peers. The purpose is to examine Black HBCU international students' sense of belonging on campus. This study engages qualitative individual interviews with…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Foreign Students, Student School Relationship, Intercultural Communication
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Spencer-Oatey, Helen; Dauber, Daniel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
According to a recent report, the top skill that employers are looking for in graduates is an ability to work collaboratively with teams of people from a range of backgrounds and countries. So as universities seek to internationalise, an important question is how successful they are in developing this skill. Both research and anecdotal evidence…
Descriptors: Teamwork, International Education, Skill Development, Cultural Awareness
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Unjore, Sanju – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
Moving to a new country is often seen as a disturbing event in sojourners' lives. Several models of adjustment postulate that the first phase of the sojourn is either categorised by euphoria or anxiety. Using a case study of three Indian Postgraduate students, this paper investigates whether the beginning phase of these sojourners was euphoric or…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Case Studies, Graduate Students, Expectation
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Aydin, Hasan; Tonbuloglu, Betül – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Problem statement: The main responsibility in the implementation of multicultural education, which includes notions like equality, respect, and peace, as well as an equal opportunity for success for all students, belongs to teachers. The teachers' perception of and attitude towards multicultural education are directly related to how they will…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Dandy, Justine; Durkin, Kevin; Barber, Bonnie L.; Houghton, Stephen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
There are ethnic group differences in academic achievement among Australian students, with Aboriginal students performing substantially below and Asian students above their peers. One factor that may contribute to these effects is societal stereotypes of Australian Asian and Aboriginal students, which may bias teachers' evaluations and influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Educational Objectives, Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement
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