Byram / Feng Living and Studying Abroad

Research and Practice
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-85359-912-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

The internationalisation of higher education has led to study abroad being a large scale phenomenon. Students spend short periods on study tours or a year or more taking courses in foreign universities. Studying aboard cannot be dissociated however from learning to live in another country and culture. The need to adapt to a new education system is obvious but the inevitable difficulties of living in another culture for the purpose of study are also an important facet of the whole experience. Chapters in this book report research into this whole phenomenon. Authors have researched students travelling across the world, from East to West and West to East, and also the effects of studying in countries which seem to be more like students’ own. Each chapter explains the case in question, the findings from the research and what the implications might be. The second part of each chapter is then a critical reflection on the research methods used. The book thus provides a guide to the complexity of this kind of research and how that complexity can be handled with appropriate techniques and methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byram, Michael

Feng, Anwei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Robert Crawshaw

1. Introduction - Michael Byram and Anwei Feng

Sojourns Far

2. Japanese Students in England – Mari Ayano

3. Irish Students in Japan - Aileen Pearson-Evans

4. The One Less Travelled by ….: The Experience of Chinese Students in a UK University – Christine Burnett and John Gardner

Sojourns Near

5. Reciprocal Adjustment by Host and Sojourning Groups: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong - Carol Lam

6. Study Abroad and Experiences of Cultural Distance and Proximity: French Erasmus Students - Vassiliki Papatsiba

Short-Term Sojourns

7. Ethnographic Pedagogy and Evaluation in Short-term Study Abroad: Study Abroad and Experiences of Cultural Distance and Proximity – Jane Jackson

8. Student Perspectives in Short-term Study Programmes Abroad: A Grounded Theory Study - Gertrud Tarp

Lasting Effects on Sojourners

9. The Assistant Experience in Retrospect: An Interview Study Examining its Educational and Professional Significance in Teachers' Biographies - Susanne Ehrenreich

10. British Students in France: Ten Years On - Geof Alred and Mike Byram

Evaluating the Impact Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization - Darla Deardorff

References

Über Autor(innen)

Feng, Anwei
Anwei Feng is Professor of Language Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). He has had teaching and research experience in many countries and regions including China, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. His research areas include multilingualism, multilingual education, and intercultural studies in education.

Byram, Michael
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and  German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.

Michael Byram is Professor of Education at Durham University where he has taught trainee teachers, and researched language teaching and the experience of living abroad on language students in Higher Education. He is also Adviser to the Council of Europe Language Policy Division.

Anwei Feng lectures and supervises education doctoral students at Durham University. His research interests include intercultural studies, language education and the experience of students from Asia in the UK.