Journal Articles
Intercultural learning on short-term sojourns
- Intercultural learning on short-term sojourns
- Intercultural Education, 20, 59-71, 2009
- Routledge
- 2009
- Multicultural Education Second Language Acquisition Host Families of Foreign Students Cultural Awareness Interviews Surveys Diaries Cultural Competence England Development Model of Intercultural Sensitivity Intercultural Competence Intercultural Development Inventory Intercultural Sensitivity Study and Residence Abroad
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Unknown or Unspecified
- This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after 14 weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted ethnographic projects. Data consisted of interviews, an intercultural reflections journal, surveys, field notes, ethnographic conversations and a diary. The Intercultural Development Inventory measured their intercultural sensitivity on entry, after the pre-sojourn preparation, and post-sojourn. The findings supported the primary assumption that underpins the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity: 'as one's experience of cultural difference becomes more complex and sophisticated, one's competence in intercultural relations increases'. [Copyright of Intercultural Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14675980903370870]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 14675986
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/da4489fb
- 2010-11-28
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