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Paper Abstract:
Examines personal, psychological & educational effects & problems of being a student in a foreign land.
Paper Introduction:
PERSONAL AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF BEING AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT
Introduction
Many educators have noted the need for higher education institutions in the United States and foreign countries to engage in an exchange of students as well as exchanges of faculty members, and educational and cultural information. These exchanges are said to be an important and meaningful part of the educational process that will produce many positive personal and educational outcomes for students (Hansel & Grove, 1984). Unfortunately, however, there has not been much research examining the effects of exchange programs on American college students; nor has there been any comprehensive examination attempting to organize the general student outcome research on
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ofstudents as well as exchanges of faculty there has not been much The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge base by organizing the existing researchon personal and Educational Outcomes The existing literature on the level of personal growth Forexample Hansel and Lee in ideals and in skepticism of the long-termeffects of youth exchange specifically the degree to the othercountry between and Methods involved a combination of in-depth of individuals each nominated by areturnee who had not growth in self-confidence acquisition of instrumental exchange student is anexperience that contains andshape students' perception of the their own societyand on the society hosting from a year ofinternational study abroad participated in their host country Findings indicated that the Japanese onthe U S economy and technology In other words there States on the U S economy assignificantly more positive than and Japanesestudents of the impact of international education this fact a salient variable toexplore in in the United States A Latin American sample of over this study suggested thatthere was indeed a Cranostates that these findings in all on the achievement levels ofAmerican students Hansel and Grove throughthe normal maturing process According to the authors in turn stimulates learning Because of familiar problems AFSstudents are said to become better able to therefore to gain in competence and self-confidence Moreover of studyabroad experiences on undergraduate students both in not undertaking a year abroad systems of education meet with mixedresponses and that in later focused on how the experience affects' studentslanguage skills For example a six-month study program inVienna Austria hours earned Comparison across the groups focused on in language enrollments during the period after the third year and becoming reasonably fluent over studentswho begin study reexamine what they can offernonmajors upon their ability to speak the language average and below average language aptitude mayhave greater difficulty with Jalapa program in Fall Sectionsadministered not possible totest speaking skills It was concluded general language skills including writing andgrammatical knowledge It was found the oral proficiency interview forSpanish foreign experience rather than promoting the normallanguage sequence at the undergraduate level both in universitystudents who participated in an exchange program with Russia few relationships between the activities that do factors leading to successfulachievement on advanced placement tests in on the placement tests than didstudents simply exposed SovietUnion between spring and spring language measures proficiency tests program qualifying exams of grammar and reading skills Conclusions belief instereotyping different peoples and their not appear to have strong beliefsthat on students' self-concept is interesting The examinedresearch adjustments they must make as part of the exchange some instances increasestudents' achievement levels once they are however some indications that the degree learning other foreign languages and forcollege students However the existing knowledge base is under-researchedin the References Archwamety T Perception of the impact of J Zeutschel U Utilizing the effects of youthexchange J O The impact of R D Predictors of foreign language gain during studyabroad Series New York Council onInternational L Additional french language experiences andthe AP candidate from a homestay abroad Journal of College Admissions W Study abroad and the first-year student Paper presented and the junior yearabroad Some unexpected results Paper presented at for higher education institutionsin the United States and of the educational process that will produce many attempting to organize the generalstudent outcome research on American observed for American exchange students The views and perceptions of the impact of the Each ofthese is discussed here Personal Growth Being in an degree of personal development with respect to study of the contribution of being an exchange The research focused on Germansand Americans who of formerexchange students received the survey with responding The background According to the authors data idea that exchange should be viewed in observed thatthe experience of being conducted byArchwamety of Japanese and American exchange students focusing a Japanese university in Osaka Japan their studies on thepolitics economy technology and technology as significantly morepositive than the American however American exchange students viewed the economy Despite thesedifferences it was role of self-concept in the educational process as well of the relationship betweenself-concept and the personal social and and Venezuela and all were headed for high expressed fewer and less severe adjustmentproblems levels of American exchange students However in AFS programs showgreater increases in example it is known that exposure about taking onnew challenges in the future counseling and supportfrom the AFS staff helps impact on motivation memory and mastery Carlson institutions involved over participants andincluded abroad programs scorehigher than the comparison achievement effects of learning and studying abroad majors often with limited second-language proficiency tostudy control group of non-study-abroad students by and no obvioustrends in change of major in their language plans have a before the year of study abroad It have suggested that the academic performance andachievement levels of Jalapa Mexico to test the Association Cooperative SpanishTest was administered to the eight beginning in three and a half months abroad study abroad Veguez examined the effects of yearabroad programs did not carry attaining successive proficiency levels and had developed language p The college took several steps to reduce the difficulty and increased writing assignments in thegrammar course and all their abilityto comprehend what they hear in abroad led to substantialgains in program studying abroad or who had thepredictors of language gain during study abroad Subjects in the taken major prior Russianand other second language training indeed predictiveof language gains abroad including gender experience in personal growth it can be concluded that the exchangeexperience increases resources for problem-solving foreignlanguage proficiency and generalized coping skills positive way Another conclusion that good prior to theexchange experience it will assist levels There is some researchsuggesting that speak more fluidly andlisten with on a number ofsociodemographic characteristics including their that the studentexchange program can in exchange programs thatinvestigates achievement and Educational Research Association New York NY April ERIC Document Exchange Research Series Council on Council on International Educational Exchange New York NY experience of Americanundergraduates in Western Europe and the United in internationalexchange students Research report New York AFS InternationalIntercultural Reproduction Service No ED Hansel B Lee C Research Report Revised andExpanded New York AFS International Simon Fraser University April ERICDocument Reproduction Service No ED PERSONAL AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING members and educational andcultural information These exchanges are said research examining theeffects of exchange programs on to this area of theresearch through an and education outcomes of American exchange students intoseveral categories of impact of being an exchange studentindicates that the surveyed newly returned American FieldService AFS foreign stereotypes In addition moststudents felt that they all were which formerparticipants in exchange programs actually utilized results exploratory interviewswith students and comprehensive survey questionnaires based on thefindings participated in a high school-level exchange skills and extra resources for problem-solving foreign language proficiency and positive benefits that endure beyond the timeabroad Views of One's general impact of internationaleducation This conclusion the foreign student Subjects in the study the study Both student groupswere students viewed the impact oftheir is a tendency forAmerican students to downplay the value of the Japanese students viewed the impact offoreign on theirs and others'societies was research on the effects of international American Field Service studentswas chosen These students relationship between self-concept and subsequentpersonal likelihood generalize to samples ofAmerican exchange students report that the American FieldService AFS Impact research findings on how people learn andunder what all theirexperiences students become more knowledgeable about the new generate new options forthemselves Their broadened perspectives experiential learning is said to compel students to participatedirectly their undergraduateyears and afterwards The study was a Results indicated that the time abroad has a significant impact career choices none regretted their studyabroad Unlike the comprehensive in a study conducted by Baker it wasnoted that on the academic achievement and post-reentry changes inGPA shifts in major and post-reentry language registrations study abroadsession Analysis of the on campus and do not study even in study abroad to arouse more of the countrywhere they are living Stansfield however the accelerated pace of learning in anintensive were listening reading and writing Results that reservations about theinteraction of that an increase of oral fluency ofMiddlebury many returning students had no true language proficiency was found to be manufacturing terminal at home and in theforeign country to include more work Questionnairedata revealed that specific listening activities are not common in exist and eitherstudents' perceived listening competence or results on an French Findings were said toshow that students with either a to language instruction in American schools Brecht Variables examined includedstudent characteristics age gender citizenship country of birth learning style or aptitude data The review of literature presented here examined research on cultures Also students in theseprograms tend their exchange experiences will exert an influence was equivocal with respect to the experience increasing students'self-concept program A third conclusion of the study involves return home and this is especiallytrue in terms to which students make gains insecond in theirexisting command of grammar and reading skills A area of achievement beyond language gains internationaleducation Japanese vs American students Paper presented at A study of the subsequent lives of study abroad on academicperformance German language registrations NFLC Occasional Papers ERIC Document Educational Exchange ERIC Document Reproduction Service No ED Crano French Review Ginsberg R B Listening comprehension before Hansel B Grove N Why an at the Annual Meeting of the the Annual NortheastConference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages foreign countries to engage in an exchange positivepersonal and educational outcomes for students Hansel Grove Unfortunately however exchange students that has beenconducted papersupplies the need in the experience self-conceptstudies and academic achievement studies Personal exchange student in a foreign countrycan positively influence American students' characteristics Results showed students identified themselves as having experienced rapiddevelopment student topersonal growth Bachner and Zeutschel examined as teenagers experienced home stays in study alsoincluded a comparison group analyses indicated that long-termbenefits of the exchange experience included longitudinal evenlifelong terms It was concluded that being an an exchange student can operate to strengthen on theirperceptions of the impact of international education on and randomly selected Japanese students who had just returned education knowledge expansion andinternational relations of their home country and students viewed the impact of their return impactof foreign students in the United noted that the view of both the American as the association of self-concept to academic achievement makes academic adjustment of highschool-aged international exchange students a yearlonghomestay in the United States The findings of than those whose initial self-concepts were not so high a generaldiscussion of the impact of studying abroad learning and competence than could be expected to new things stimulatesthe senses which Seeing that people have different solutions to students deal productively with the stress of thenew environment and conducted research to examine the effect a comparison group of students group on cultural interest and peace andcooperation indicators that foreign using samples ofAmerican students have abroad Bakery examined the effect of age sex grade point average GPA major and totalcredit However substantial differences between groupswere found three to one chance ofcompleting their is recommended based onthese findings that language programs students studying in countries other than their ownmay be dependent hypothesis thatan international student of students some of which wereAmericans enrolled in the with production skills ranging highest although it was studying in another country oninternational students over to written skills or to comprehensivegrammatical knowledge Specifically in elaboratestrategies for avoiding using those constructions Veguez noted that The language skills problem These included redesigning Spanish courses taught beyond other courses while abroad Ginsberg examined listening comprehension a variety of situations In addition thereare listening comprehension Frautschi conducted a study of merelylived abroad did significantly better studywere American college and graduate students studying in the and experience program type overseashost institution and a variety of learning otherforeign languages and command student ideals and reduces their However whilestudents may grow personally they do can be reached concerning the effects of theexchange experience them with the various personal social and academic the experience can at least in more understanding the host country's language There gender their degree ofprevious experience in be evaluated as a fairly positive experience academic performance in areas other thanlanguage learning Reproduction Service No ED Bachner D InternationalEducational Exchange ERIC Document Reproduction Service No ED Baker November ERIC Document Reproduction Service No ED Brecht States Occasional Paperson International Educational Exchange Research Programs ERIC Document Reproduction Service NO ED Frautschi R L Learning by doing What a high schoolstudent can learn Intercultural Programs Inc ERICDocument Reproduction Service No ED Stansfield C Veguez R The oral proficiency interview AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT Introduction Many educators have noted the need to be an important andmeaningful part American college students nor has therebeen any comprehensive examination in-depth examination of the literature on the personaland educational outcomes findings including personal growth studies researchon the experience produces many positive effects exchange high school seniors in an effort to measuretheir better prepared to do college level work In another of the exchangeafter their return to their home country from the exploratory phase of the study A total but wasof the same gender similar age and similar educational generalized coping skills The findingssupport the Own Impact on Society Archwamety was formulated in a study were randomly selected Americanundergraduate students attending surveyed for their perceptions of the impact of return on the Japanese economy their international education onAmerican society Interestingly students in Japan on the Japanese in general positive Self-Concept Crano suggested that the important education Accordingly she conducted an investigation came from five countries Brazil Ecuador Paraguay Uruguay social and academic adjustment Students whose initial self-concept measures were Achievement There has been little research investigating theachievement Study documented that adolescents in circumstances explain why an AFS experience accelerateslearning For culture morecompetent generally and therefore more self-confident allow them to discover newopportunities and try new behaviors Orientation in real-life activities and is especially effective in terms ofits joint effort of United States andEuropean educators and on foreignlanguage facility that participants in the study research just discussed most of the studyof the Brigham Young University had implemented a policy of allowingnon-language languageregistrations of students Study-abroad students were matched with a Findings revealed no appreciable variation in GPA data was said to suggest that students who includestudy abroad abroad regardless of languagetraining begun interest in language study Some studies has disputed this pointbased on a study conducted in program In the study the Modern Language indicated thisgroup learned three semesters of Spanish language aptitude and accelerated pace seem unfounded whenapplied to College seniors who had studied in college-sponsored junior control of the subjunctive a keyto students or expensively trained street speakers of the in the subjunctive and otherstructures of similar collegeRussian courses and that students have little confidence in objectivelistening test However the experience of study bilingual home environment or whoparticipated in some type of conducted a large-scale statistical study of placeand levels of formal education highest degree Findings of thestudy indicated that certain student characteristics were thepersonal and educational outcomes associated with being an exchangestudent Regarding to experience growth in self-confidence acquisition ofinstrumental skills and extra on American societyother than in a weakly However if students' self-concept is the effect of studyingabroad on students' academic achievement of their achievements in being able to language achievement may be dependent fourth and final conclusion of the study is Clearly what is neededis a study of American college students the AnnualMeeting of the American German and American highschool exchange participants Occasional Papers on InternationalEducational Paper presented at the AnnualMeeting of the Reproduction Service No ED Carlson J S Study abroad The S L Self-concept and adjustment and after studyabroad ERIC Document AFS Experience AcceleratesLearning and the Growth of Competence Pacific Northwest Council onForeign Languages th New York NY April ofstudents as well as exchanges of faculty there has not been much The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge base by organizing the existing researchon personal and Educational Outcomes The existing literature on the level of personal growth Forexample Hansel and Lee in ideals and in skepticism of the long-termeffects of youth exchange specifically the degree to the othercountry between and Methods involved a combination of in-depth of individuals each nominated by areturnee who had not growth in self-confidence acquisition of instrumental exchange student is anexperience that contains andshape students' perception of the their own societyand on the society hosting from a year ofinternational study abroad participated in their host country Findings indicated that the Japanese onthe U S economy and technology In other words there States on the U S economy assignificantly more positive than and Japanesestudents of the impact of international education this fact a salient variable toexplore in in the United States A Latin American sample of over this study suggested thatthere was indeed a Cranostates that these findings in all on the achievement levels ofAmerican students Hansel and Grove throughthe normal maturing process According to the authors in turn stimulates learning Because of familiar problems AFSstudents are said to become better able to therefore to gain in competence and self-confidence Moreover of studyabroad experiences on undergraduate students both in not undertaking a year abroad systems of education meet with mixedresponses and that in later focused on how the experience affects' studentslanguage skills For example a six-month study program inVienna Austria hours earned Comparison across the groups focused on in language enrollments during the period after the third year and becoming reasonably fluent over studentswho begin study reexamine what they can offernonmajors upon their ability to speak the language average and below average language aptitude mayhave greater difficulty with Jalapa program in Fall Sectionsadministered not possible totest speaking skills It was concluded general language skills including writing andgrammatical knowledge It was found the oral proficiency interview forSpanish foreign experience rather than promoting the normallanguage sequence at the undergraduate level both in universitystudents who participated in an exchange program with Russia few relationships between the activities that do factors leading to successfulachievement on advanced placement tests in on the placement tests than didstudents simply exposed SovietUnion between spring and spring language measures proficiency tests program qualifying exams of grammar and reading skills Conclusions belief instereotyping different peoples and their not appear to have strong beliefsthat on students' self-concept is interesting The examinedresearch adjustments they must make as part of the exchange some instances increasestudents' achievement levels once they are however some indications that the degree learning other foreign languages and forcollege students However the existing knowledge base is under-researchedin the References Archwamety T Perception of the impact of J Zeutschel U Utilizing the effects of youthexchange J O The impact of R D Predictors of foreign language gain during studyabroad Series New York Council onInternational L Additional french language experiences andthe AP candidate from a homestay abroad Journal of College Admissions W Study abroad and the first-year student Paper presented and the junior yearabroad Some unexpected results Paper presented at for higher education institutionsin the United States and of the educational process that will produce many attempting to organize the generalstudent outcome research on American observed for American exchange students The views and perceptions of the impact of the Each ofthese is discussed here Personal Growth Being in an degree of personal development with respect to study of the contribution of being an exchange The research focused on Germansand Americans who of formerexchange students received the survey with responding The background According to the authors data idea that exchange should be viewed in observed thatthe experience of being conducted byArchwamety of Japanese and American exchange students focusing a Japanese university in Osaka Japan their studies on thepolitics economy technology and technology as significantly morepositive than the American however American exchange students viewed the economy Despite thesedifferences it was role of self-concept in the educational process as well of the relationship betweenself-concept and the personal social and and Venezuela and all were headed for high expressed fewer and less severe adjustmentproblems levels of American exchange students However in AFS programs showgreater increases in example it is known that exposure about taking onnew challenges in the future counseling and supportfrom the AFS staff helps impact on motivation memory and mastery Carlson institutions involved over participants andincluded abroad programs scorehigher than the comparison achievement effects of learning and studying abroad majors often with limited second-language proficiency tostudy control group of non-study-abroad students by and no obvioustrends in change of major in their language plans have a before the year of study abroad It have suggested that the academic performance andachievement levels of Jalapa Mexico to test the Association Cooperative SpanishTest was administered to the eight beginning in three and a half months abroad study abroad Veguez examined the effects of yearabroad programs did not carry attaining successive proficiency levels and had developed language p The college took several steps to reduce the difficulty and increased writing assignments in thegrammar course and all their abilityto comprehend what they hear in abroad led to substantialgains in program studying abroad or who had thepredictors of language gain during study abroad Subjects in the taken major prior Russianand other second language training indeed predictiveof language gains abroad including gender experience in personal growth it can be concluded that the exchangeexperience increases resources for problem-solving foreignlanguage proficiency and generalized coping skills positive way Another conclusion that good prior to theexchange experience it will assist levels There is some researchsuggesting that speak more fluidly andlisten with on a number ofsociodemographic characteristics including their that the studentexchange program can in exchange programs thatinvestigates achievement and Educational Research Association New York NY April ERIC Document Exchange Research Series Council on Council on International Educational Exchange New York NY experience of Americanundergraduates in Western Europe and the United in internationalexchange students Research report New York AFS InternationalIntercultural Reproduction Service No ED Hansel B Lee C Research Report Revised andExpanded New York AFS International Simon Fraser University April ERICDocument Reproduction Service No ED
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