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Study abroad from the participants' perspective: a challenge to common beliefs
Ist Teil von
Foreign language annals, 1998, Vol.31 (1), p.23-39
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
1998
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
ERIC
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Much study-abroad program recruitment literature depicts the overseas experience as a short cut to linguistic fluency and cross-cultural understanding, a view that is also largely supported by research on the outcomes of a stay abroad; however, when the experience of learning to interact in a foreign language and of adapting to a foreign culture is viewed through the eyes of four American summer study-abroad students in France, a different perspective emerges. The findings of this study challenge many common beliefs about the overseas educational experience and, in doing so, raise questions that hold implications for study-abroad programs and foreign language classrooms alike. (Verlag).