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Aliaga-Linares, Lissette; Romero, Troy – Teaching Sociology, 2023
International travel has long been considered a key pedagogical strategy for global learning. Yet very little is known about whether study-abroad experiences increase students' awareness of the impact of tourism as a global phenomenon. In this study, we assessed students' learning through a content analysis of their journals and final essays from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Tourism, Foreign Countries, Social Responsibility
Muse, Amy – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2015
"The Portrait of a Lady," by Henry James, is a novel of being educated abroad. The novel's interior style forces readers to closely consider why they travel, what and whom they might encounter, and how they want to live their lives. Reading "The Portrait of a Lady" as a tale of two travelers allows it to remain the…
Descriptors: Novels, Study Abroad, Travel, College Faculty
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Ockert, David – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
This article contains the results of a chi-squared analysis on the data set of a survey instrument completed by a class of Japanese elementary school students (n = 29) before and after a series of Skype® exchanges. The parametric results were reported previously (Ockert, 2015a). The instrument instructions requested students to rank six statements…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Rating Scales
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Sangki Kim – English Teaching, 2017
Intelligibility of second language (L2) English has become an important goal in English pronunciation teaching. However, intelligibility research primarily focused on L2 English users and L2 production features; only a handful of studies have examined other effects on the intelligibility of L2 English. In line with the three-part model of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Brown, L. M.; Edelson, R. – 1976
Field trips for preservice teachers as an integral part of academic coursework appear to positively influence student understanding of diverse educational techniques and problems, and the educational needs of diverse cultural and ethnic populations. A description is given of a field trip to Mexico for students in an introductory early childhood…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2005
In general, ESP textbooks tend to reflect methodological trends, educational fashions and changing contents. Undeniably, their quality has increased in the last 15 years and they tend to cater for most students' needs regardless of the pupils' field of study. However, those related to English teaching and learning for tourism studies do not…
Descriptors: Travel, Tourism, Textbooks, Comparative Analysis