The King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Programs gives thousands of young Saudi Arabian women the opportunity to study abroad, learn English, and earn advanced degrees. How do students from this religiously conservative nation, studying at two Washington universities, construct ca…
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Most of the research that pertains to study abroad focuses heavily on students, but not professionals who work in the field of international education. This thesis argues that a different perspective is useful to understand the growing trend of students who are studying abroad i…
Significant health care disparities exist in the United States. Nurses can play an important role eliminating these disparities. International immersion experiences for undergraduate nursing students may provide long-lasting enhancements in cultural competency and improvements i…
Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degre…
The emerging global structure requires interaction between societies and the international flow of knowledge. Exchange of students and study abroad programs are components of this internationalization process. The Erasmus program, the most common study abroad program in Turkey, …
Study abroad is often viewed as an ideal setting to improve target language proficiency due to opportunities for extensive contact with locals in the target language. However, research on study abroad demonstrates that this local contact and target language use can be quite limi…
The study compared the work ethic of Nigerian students at two major midwestern universities to determine whether there were differences in their levels of work ethic as measured by the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (OWEI). Through face-to-face survey a population sample of 1…
In the current era of globalization, the world has experienced unprecedented changes compared to any era of human experience. It is in these changes that operating in the world has become an increasingly complex phenomena dictated by transnational processes. And, it is in these …
The purpose of this study was to measure and describe change in intercultural sensitivity by 28 college students from two campuses of a major East Coast state university who participated in one of two university-sponsored study abroad language programs: a seven-week summer progr…
“Not Drowning but Waving: The American Junior Year Abroad” explores and describes study abroad amongst college students while also showing the historical roots of study abroad. This thesis seeks to understand the history and current issues in study abroad while also giving a lit…
After the events of September 11th 2001, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts revised their curriculum frameworks to include extensive coverage of Islam and Muslim society. As a result, K-12 teachers had to seek out professional development courses to increase their knowledge on th…
The purpose of this study was to examine the culture learning process in study abroad. More specifically, this study attempted to understand the preparation that on-site staff have had for their role as intercultural educators, how they conceptualize and facilitate culture learn…
To boost the social and economic outlook of the country, Turkey has recently initiated educational reform at all levels and especially higher education, including organizational restructuring and expansion for increased accessibility. The swift increase in the number and size of…
This study highlights the complexities associated with learning a heritage language (HL) abroad, specifically with regard to identity, expectations, and beliefs about language and language learning, by examining the ways that HL learners talk about themselves. These are importan…
Scope and Method of Study . This thesis investigates the various implications that mass media has on social perceptions and political relations between nations, and the effects that traveling abroad can have cross-cultural relationships. These topics are discussed and compared a…
This descriptive and exploratory study examined the Turkish government's policy regarding access to study abroad, and Turkish student views regarding: (a) access patterns to universities and colleges in the U.S., (b) motivations for study abroad in general and U.S. schools, and …
As of Spring 2013, this is the first research study of its type which has looked at and analyzed the results of qualitative interviews conducted with Kurdish Iraqi students studying abroad in the government's, Mhe-HCDP, foreign study abroad program. The study looks at student's …
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government initiated a youth exchange program to bring Muslim students to the U.S. for a school year. The Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program was created to help reduce tensions, and foster mutual under…
This sociolinguistic study examines the functions and motivations of code-switching, which is used here to mean the use of more than one language in the same conversation. The conversations studied here take place in a very particular context: one-on-one speaking sessions in a s…