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Nielsen, Helle Lykke – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
Foreign language teachers can benefit substantially from the notions of curation and nudging when scaffolding CLIL activities on the internet. This article shows how these principles can be integrated into CLILstore, a free multimedia-rich learning tool with seamless access to online dictionaries, and presents feedback from first and second year…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
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Lang, Anouk – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This article reports on the results of a project which used a social network site to support students on a year abroad and foster informal learning, particularly in the area of intercultural communication. The project employed a peer-mentoring structure to solve the problem of role conflict, in which users of these sites may feel some tension as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Intercultural Communication, Informal Education
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Mills, Kay – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
This article describes the international program at Missouri Southern, which began 10 years ago and has expanded in both the number of students and faculty participating, and in the places to go for foreign study. The program affects students two ways, according to university president Julio Leon. While some students do foreign study as part of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, College Outcomes Assessment, College Second Language Programs, Participant Satisfaction
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1996
This report, the last in a series of four 1996 releases of students' opinions, represents a continued effort by MetLife to provide insight and understanding to current issues of education in American public schools. The survey assessed student opinions and interests in learning about multicultural topics. Public school students from middle and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Cultural Pluralism, Research Reports