A survey of 300 Elderhostel participants in four southern states found that those with intellectual or social motivations were most likely to be satisfied. Expectations were highly related to satisfaction; demographic characteristics and health showed little relationship to satisfaction. (SK)

The literature of Appalachian Studies is examined in light of Keresztesi's model of the evolution of academic disciplines. Political activism drove the creation of Appalachian Studies in colleges and universities, but the discipline has not yet reached full respectability due to lack of funding, accrediting agencies, graduate programs, textbooks,…

Discusses how summer session programs increasingly make sense for students seeking early graduation, as well as for colleges with growing enrollments,. (EV)

Having a designated safety expert at camp creates a culture of safety. The Gene Ezersky Camp Safety College, which certifies safety directors, has identified seven areas of camp that should be the focus of the safety director: kitchen and food services, health and sanitation, emergency preparation and management, leadership training, facility…

Considers why scholastic journalism is an excellent opportunity to recruit high school students into college journalism and mass communication programs. (SR)

Offers suggestions to members of the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) on using the Internet to improve their dealings with college buyers. Briefly describes providing event information through Web sites, password-protected administrative sites, NACA's Web site, virtual offices, and high-speed Internet access. (EV)

Former inmates who took college courses in a Massachusetts prison (n=32) were compared with 32 similar former inmates with no college. Results show inmates who completed at least one college course while incarcerated were 21.9% less likely to recidivate 5 years after release. (SK)

The purpose of this paper is to discuss, evaluate, and illustrate the experiences of a City-as-Text[C] exploration in partial fulfillment of the requirements of an honors study abroad program in Spain. First, the nature and procedures of City as Text[C] as a learning tool are explained, followed by a list of necessary conditions for its…

This paper investigates how instances of language use can serve as analytic anchors for insight into interactional development over time. I present a usage-based, longitudinal study of multi-turn sequences underlying telephone openings in order to specify if and to whom "language learning" may be relevantly ascribed. Two successive…

The collegiate foreign language profession has become increasingly aware of the unnecessarily detrimental effects of bifurcated curricula on student learning and departmental governance, yet there have been few instances to date of departments that have been able to achieve unified, articulated programs of study. This article presents one foreign…

First-year composition in U.S. higher education has been a major site of L2 writing research. Despite the historical division between mainstream first-year composition and L2 writing, there has been an increasing interest in integrating insights from L2 writing research into the professional literature in rhetoric and composition and writing…

The study of factors influencing undergraduate learners' participation and/or reticence in second/foreign language classrooms, a relatively recent line of research, can contribute to the betterment of language teaching and learning practices. In this work, we attempt to investigate the causes of a population of undergraduate English as a foreign…

The combination of theater and community-based service-learning can be a powerful tool to allow university students to meet their educational goals while connecting them with the world. The performance of children's theater in elementary schools with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs, for example, has important pedagogical…

The present study provides an in-depth, longitudinal account of an undergraduate student's L2 discourse socialization in an academic exchange program in Canada. By invoking Rogoff's (1995) notion of participatory appropriation, this qualitative case study examined an L2 student's task-related strategies and performance as they evolved over time in…

In the assessment of aural skills of second language learners, the study of the inclusion of visual stimuli has almost exclusively been conducted in the context of listening assessment. While the inclusion of contextual information in test input has been advocated for by numerous researchers (Ockey, 2010), little has been said regarding the…