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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"short-term study abroad program"”.
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Task-based pragmatic interventions and intercultural communicative competency : a comparison of students in a short-term study abroad program with the home university
… undergraduate students. The data in the current study come from two different groups of students enrolled in third-semester lower-division German at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). The experimental or study abroad (SA) group is made up of 18 UT undergraduates who studied abroad for 10 …
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Short-Term Study Abroad And Dialect Acquisition: An Analysis Of The Acquisition Of The Ustedes-Vosotros Verbal Mixing By Study Abroad L2 Learners Of Spanish
Study abroad is often idealized as a panacea for language learning. The growth in the popularity of studying abroad has led to the proliferation of programs of various lengths, among which is the short-term study abroad program, typically lasting around one month. Much needed investigation remains …
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University student indigenous intercultural sensitivity and short-term study abroad
… of indigenous peoples within American study abroad programs, and student participants rarely gain an authentic experience, awareness, and intercultural sensitivity towards such groups. This case study seeks to address this disparity through the creation of a new geography short-term …
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The Cultural Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
<p>This study explores the nature of the transformative experience that can occur for students as a result of participating in a short-term study abroad program. Eighteen University of South Carolina students who participated in a wide variety of topical, short-term study abroad programs during the …
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Preparing Global Leaders: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Development of Intercultural Competency
… a considerable body of research has found that studying abroad is one of the best ways for undergraduate students to develop at least one characteristic of ICC (Chieffo & Griffths, 2004; Deardorff, 2006; Sheridan, 2005). The question remains, however, whether or not study abroad programs can …
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The Development of Intercultural Maturity in Second Year College Students
… of this mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study was to investigate the development of intercultural maturity in second year college students -- both those who complete a short-term study abroad experience and those who remain on campus. Pre-test, post-test, and three-month follow-up …