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Outcomes of an interdisciplinary study abroad course: learning Spanish and multicultural education concurrently
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This study reports the outcomes of undergraduate students completing a pilot Interdisciplinary Intensive Course Abroad (IICA) with a service learning component. The IICA model is comprised of a thr...read more
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The mediating role of intercultural wonderment: connecting programmatic components to global outcomes in study abroad
TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of intercultural wonderment in relation to students' development of a global perspective is examined, and the results have broad implications for study abroad researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of how students learn and develop in study abroad contexts.
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Spanish L2 Students’ Perceptions of Service-Learning: A Case Study from Ecuador
Alan V. Brown,Kerry Purmensky +1 more
TL;DR: Perceptions of the relationship between the service-learning component of a four-week study-abroad program in Ecuador and the development of students’ linguistic and cultural competency are examined.
Intercultural Learning Perspectives of World Language Educators in Kentucky.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the state of world language teachers' global competence understanding and what they perceive to be best practices to transmit intercultural competencies to students, which is problematic for administrators since they are responsible for setting foreign language skills policies for the school districts.
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Decolonizing Identities of Teachers of Color Through Study Abroad: Dreaming Beyond Assumptions, Toward Embracing Transnational Ways of Knowing
TL;DR: In this paper, a Mexico-based study-abroad program that engages indigenous knowledge while partnering with a Freirian language school helps decolonize the identities of teachers of color.
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Using Service-Learning as a Tool to Develop Intercultural Understanding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ways in which engaging in international service-learning could be used to leverage students' development of intercultural understanding and highlighted the understandings that were cultivated.
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Context and Culture in Language Teaching
TL;DR: The importance of context in language education is discussed in this article, where the authors propose a discourse perspective to teach the spoken language across the cultural faultline and to reconstruct the C2 context of production and reception in the learner's native culture C1", C2": in the eyes of others.
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Interdependence of first- and second-language proficiency in bilingual children
TL;DR: The authors argued that the process of second-language acquisition can be clarified by distinguishing between two dimensions of proficiency that relate in specific ways to determinants of the acquisition process, namely, attribute-based and input-based aspects of proficiency.
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Teaching language in context
TL;DR: This second edition of this highly acclaimed text reviews and summarizes past and current language acquisition theories, examines recent trends and changing technology that have influenced teaching practice, and extracts those elements most relevant to the construction of viable models for teaching.
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CONTEXT, CONTACT, AND COGNITION IN ORAL FLUENCY ACQUISITION: Learning Spanish in At Home and Study Abroad Contexts
TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of context of learning in second language (L2) acquisition and found that learners in the SA context made greater gains, both in terms of temporal and hesitation phenomena and in oral proficiency as measured by the oral proficiency interview (OPI).
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Language, culture, and teaching : critical perspectives for a new century
TL;DR: The authors explores how language and culture are connected to teaching and learning, and examines the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of languages and culture to understand how they affect student learning and achievement.