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From Widening Horizons to Widening Participation: Transmitting the Experience of Global Citizenship to the School Classroom
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Hampton, Cathy; Demeure-Ahearne, Ariane – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper gives account of a project involving Year Abroad students of French at Warwick University challenged to select "realia" from their host countries in order to stimulate enthusiasm for language learning in local schools. It considers the cognitive and affective processes informing the "culture gathering" that took…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizen Participation, Foreign Culture, Study Abroad
Contacts inter-ethniques: Leurs effets sur l'attitude et la motivation en langue seconde (Cross-Cultural Contacts: Their Effects on Second Language Learners' Attitudes and Motivations).
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Deshaies, Denise; Hamers, Josiane – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Presents the results of an evaluation of the effect of short interethnic exchange programs on attitudes and motivations linked to second language learning. Analyzes the results obtained in three experiments, showing that the attitudinal/motivational variables are positively influenced by this type of exchange. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Study Abroad and Intercultural Communication. The Challenge of Communication. ACTFL Review of Foreign Language Education, Vol. 6.
Bourque, Jane M. – 1974
Preparation for study abroad is a valid part of the foreign language program. One advantage of study abroad is the motivational focus it gives to home-based foreign languages programs. The possibility of participating in the foreign culture and actually using the language are incentives. Teaching intercultural communication and understanding is a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Culture Contact
International, Intercultural Communication: Selected Annotated Bibliography.
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Casmir, Fred L. – 1987
Designed to assist the student, scholar or practitioner interested in the role of culture in communications and human organization, this annotated bibliography cites sources since 1972 on intercultural and international communication. The 78 references are organized as follows: (1) books (including general handbooks for training sojourners or…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training
Teaching for Cross-Cultural Understanding.
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Ladu, Tora Tuve – 1969
Stating that man's intellectual and spiritual horizons need to be expanded through educational programs and approaches in cross-cultural understanding, the author claims that a greater world perspective is attained through the study of social studies, foreign language, English, fine arts, and science, particularly in interdisciplinary programs.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
Proceedings of the Annual Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business and the Professions (7th, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 7-9, 1988).
Des Harnais, Gaston, Ed. – 1988
Eighty-nine conference papers are presented in 10 sections: (1) language and cultural factors in conducting international business (qualifications for success as an international manager, staffing of international departments, role of second language proficiency, and international management concepts); (2) interdisciplinary language and business…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Area Studies, Business Administration Education