Exploring Conditions to Enhance Student/Host Family Interaction Abroad

Autor/inn/en	Knight, Susan M.; Schmidt-Rinehart, Barbara C.
Titel	Exploring Conditions to Enhance Student/Host Family Interaction Abroad
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 43 (2010) 1, S.64-79 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
Schlagwörter	Interaction; Study Abroad; Interpersonal Relationship; Journal Writing; Family Relationship; Student Participation; Questionnaires; Second Language Learning; Cultural Awareness; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Spanish; Summer Programs; Family Involvement; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Mexico; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interaktion; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Fragebogen; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Spanisch; Sommerkurs; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Mexiko; Spanien
Abstract	This study investigates the role of task-based learning in the study abroad experience in order to enhance interaction with the host family. Tasks were incorporated into a Family Interaction Journal and implemented under four evolving, though different, conditions over a 5-year period. The conditions were: (1) home campus administered/student participated voluntarily; (2) home campus administered/student participated for voluntary credit; (3) abroad program administered/student participated voluntarily; and (4) abroad program administered/student participated for credit in conversation class. In each condition students were assigned to task/no-task groups. Although there were no statistically significant differences on questionnaire answers for the two groups, the qualitative data consistently showed greater understanding of the family, increased language and cultural learning, and increased interaction for the task group. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10