Study abroad, why???

• How did you all learn your second or third or fourth language?????

• How far do you think that someone will get with just going to classes?

• Oral Proficiency Gains: Number of Semesters Studying at home

• On average, students in the study (SAPs and control students, for all target languages combined) had reached an oral proficiency plateau—between intermediate mid and intermediate high

• Regardless of the number of semesters studied in college and/or high school,

• focused and reflective interaction with the host culture is finally what separates study abroad from study at home. And the degree to which program design facilitates such experience is what most distinguishes one study abroad program from another.

• Our duties should not be seeing to client comfort or customer satisfaction but challenging, stimulating, pushing students to push themselves toward the greatest possible personal growth, both intellectually and emotionally.

• Sojourners “grow beyond the psychologicalparameters of the original culture,” Young Kim contends, “in spite of, or rather because of, the adversarial nature of the cross-cultural adaptation process” (Kim, 144).

• True????

• Have you ever had a difficult cross-cultural experience, either at home or abroad?

• many students begin their experience abroad picked up at the airport after a group flight organized especially for them and, once on the scene, they are provided with the latest technology for electronic-mail communication.

• Echoing Darwin, but now in the realm of cross-cultural adaptation, Edward T. Hall argues that, “without environmental change, complex forms of life cannot evolve”

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• All baguettes, • Like all programs are not

created equal.

• How many go?

• Where do they go?

• Why somany in the UK?

• How manySpan. countries?

Is study abroad worth it?

• How much does it cost?• Spain for 3 months with BYU?• About $10,000!!!!!• How much do they learn?

• Oral Proficiency Gains: Study Abroad vs. At home• SA = one ACTFL sublevel, from just below

intermediate high to just below advanced low.• At home = about half as much: from just below

intermediate high to intermediate high.

• -Rigoberto was raised a monolingual English speaker and has never been outside the U.S.

• His only significant exposure to the language other than the Taco Bell Chihuahua has been his 4 semesters of college Spanish through which

• He has reached the intermediate mid level in Spanish according to the ACTFL guidelines.

• What type of program should he attend?

• Chloe• Two semesters of French• Good student academically, a little shy• What program should she attend?