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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"host families"”.
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Host Families’ Perspectives of the Impact of the Commodification of Education on the Student-Host Family Relationship in Study Abroad
… overlooked how these trends affect the student-host family relationship from the family's perspective. </p> <p>This study examines whether, and, if so, how Spanish host families perceive their roles and relationships with the American students they host have been impacted by these trends. Using …
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Making Meaning of the American Student-Spanish Host Family Experience
… those they come into contact with, and their host families in particular. Yet little has been asked of the host families regarding what they may learn about American culture from having U.S. students living in their homes and what the hosting experience means to them. This study addresses a …
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From camp to community: musical and cultural exchange in the 2008 International Choral Ensemble
… gifts and the content of cultural exchange to host families and communities. The choir’s flexibility to adapt to situations requiring them to participate in regional and national celebrations highlights the strengths of the chorus as physical bodies, capable of producing sounds, creating strong …
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Taxonomic revision of taxa originally described in Leptosphaeria from species in the Ranunculaceae, Papaveraceae and Magnoliaceae
… taxa described from species in three plant host families, Ranunculaceae, Papaveraceae and Magnoliaceae, and L. vagabunda and its six infraspecific taxa were reexamined, redescribed and illustrated from type and authentic materials. Previous disposition of six species, L. bocconiae, L. …
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Moral natures: the convergence of imagined futures around a national park in Uganda
… spending one-month periods living with eight host families three villages, I interviewed villagers, NGO employees, state agents, and donor representatives, and I collected documents from various institutions’ libraries and archives. I applied these methods to capture the connections between …
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God gave women power: Intersections of faith, gender, agency, and well-being in Christian East Africa
… more meaningful lives for themselves and their families. Rooted in oral histories, my analysis interrogates how East Africans’ own concepts and ideas can guide our academic questions and efforts to understand that region’s history. To get at the internal worlds and social discourse of East …
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Survey of Nasal Mites (Acari: Rhinonyssidae, Ereynetidae, Turbinoptidae) in Birds from Three States in the United States
… mites are represented by different unrelated families in three different orders of mites: Rhinonyssidae (Mesostigmata), Ereynetidae (Prostigmata), and the Cytoditidae and Turbinoptidae (Astigmata). The most-diverse and most-abundant family of nasal mites is the Rhinonyssidae, in which mite …
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The Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Learner Speech in Russian: A Study in the Salience of Pronunciation, Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax
… as a Second Language and experienced Russian host families to facilitate comprehensibility of L-2Russian speech.</p> <p>The respondent group consisted of 51 native-Russian speakers plus a 20-member ethnic Russian control group, whose speech samples were also rated by the informant group. The …
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Studying Abroad at 16 and “Living their Best Lives”? The social, cultural and linguistic positionings of Swiss high school students enrolled in the French-English Bilingual Matura in the Canton de Vaud
… at best, and sometimes even mistreating. Host families also played an important part in adolescents’ experiences, given their relatively young age. Their home family also tended to be rather present for the same reason. Culturally, students’ perspectives tended to be rather ethnocentric, …