Engaging students in intentional cultural learning during study abroad

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2017 ENGAGING THE WORLD: SOCIAL PEDAGOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

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Ducate, Lara Lomicka, Lara

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2020-12-14T23:22:48Z

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2020-12-14T23:22:48Z

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2017-01-01

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This action research project creates intercultural learning opportunities by engaging students with the culture of the target country. During their study abroad experiences, German intermediate language learners became engaged with their environment to negotiate intercultural, translingual, and transcultural contexts by the deliberate act of noticing. Assigned to a particular instructor-identified theme, such as transportation or public spaces, students analyzed and reflected on each picture to distinguish how it fit into the LESCANT (Victor, 1992) categories (language, environment, social organization, context, authority, non-verbal, and time). We investigated the following questions: (1) What do students notice as they intentionally pay attention to a particular theme in the host country? (2) How do students’ understandings of German or their own cultures change over the five-week program? Data consist of study abroad students’ pictures, captions, and final questionnaires. Our goal was to promote and illustrate a deeper engagement with the target culture beyond the typical study abroad classroom and host family experiences and to share ideas for successfully engaging students in critical thinking about their translingual and transcultural experiences through interpersonal and social means.

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293

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Ducate, L. & Lomicka, L. (2017). Engaging students in intentional cultural learning during study abroad. The American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Foreign Languages Programs (AAUSC), 276-293. http://hdl.handle.net/102015/69775

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/69775

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Cengage

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276

title:

Engaging students in intentional cultural learning during study abroad

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Article

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Text

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2017