Assessing Intercultural Learning Through Introspective Accounts
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v11i1.156Keywords:
Introspective accounts, intercultural learning, assessment, study abroadAbstract
This paper illustrates the benefits of using first-person introspective accounts to investigate and assess the learning processes of short-term sojourners. In particular, it focuses on the application and analysis of the diaries of Hong Kong Chinese students who participated in a five-week sojourn in England.
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Allwright, D. and Bailey, K. (1991). Focus on the Language Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Arthur, N. (2001). Using critical incidents to investigate cross-cultural transitions. International Diary of Intercultural Relations. 25 (1), 41–53.
Atkinson, P. (1994). The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality. London: Routledge.
Bailey, K.M. (1983). Competitiveness and anxiety in adult second language acquisition: looking at and through the diary studies. In H. W. Seliger and M. Long (Eds.). Classroom-Oriented Research in Second Language Acquisition (67–103). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
Bailey, K. M. and Ochsner, R. (1983). A methodological review of the diary studies: Windmill tilting or social science? In K. M. Bailey, M. Long and S. Peck (Eds.). Second Language Acquisition Studies (pp. 188–198). Rowley,
NA: Newbury House.
Barro, A., Jordan, S. and Roberts, C. (1998). Cultural practice in everyday life: the language learner as ethnographer In M. Byram and M. Fleming (Eds.) Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective: Approaches through Drama and Ethnography
(pp.76–97). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Byram, M. (1997). Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.
Byram, M. and G. Zarate. (1997). Defining and assessing intercultural competence: some principles and proposals for the European context. Language Teaching. 29, 14–18.
Byram, M., Morgan, C. and colleagues (1994). Teaching-and-Learning, Learning-and-Culture. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.
Callen, B. (1999). Cross-cultural capability: The student diary as a research tool. In D. Killick and M. Parry (Eds.). Languages for Cross-Cultural Capability (pp. 241–248). Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University.
Coleman, J. (1995). The current state of knowledge concerning student residence abroad (pp. 17–42). In G. Parker and A. Rouxeville (Eds). ‘The Year Abroad’: Preparation, Monitoring, Evaluation: Current Research and Development. London: CILT.
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Jackson, J. (2004, April). Ethnographic preparation for study and residence abroad. Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, Long Beach, Ca.
Jæger, K. (1999). Intercultural competence and the problem of assessment (pp. 71–81). In T. Vestergaard (Ed.). Language, Culture and Identity. Copenhagen: Aalborg University Press.
Kohonen, V., Jaatinen, R., Kaikkonen, P. and Lehtovaara, J. (2001). Experiential Learning in Foreign Language Education. London: Longman.
Lewis, T. and Stickler, U. (2000). Diaries as Learning Support for the Year Abroad. Lancaster: The Interculture Project. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture
McDonough, J. (1994). A teacher looks at teachers’ diaries. ELT Journal, 48 57–65.
Murphy-Lejeune, E. (2003). An experience of interculturality: Student travelers abroad. In G. Alred, M. Byram, and M. Fleming (Eds.) Intercultural Experience and Education (pp. 101–113). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Oberg, K. (1960). Cultural shock: Adjustment to new cultural environments. Practical Anthropology 7, 177–182.
Ochs, E. and Capps, L. (1996). Narrating the self. Annual Review of Anthropology. 25, 19–43.
Pedersen, P. (1995). The Five Stages of Culture Shock: Critical Incidents Around the World Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Pellegrino, V. (1998). Student perspectives on language learning in a study abroad context. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad. IV.
Reissman, C. K. (2002a). Analysis of personal narratives. In J. Gubrium and J. Holstein (eds) Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method (pp. 695–710). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Reissman, C.K. (2002b). Narrative analysis. In M. Huberman and M. Miles (eds) The Qualitative Researcher’s Companion (pp. 217–270). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Richards, L. (2002). NVivo: Using NVivo in Qualitative Research. Melbourne: QSR International.
Roberts, C. (1995). Language and cultural learning: An ethnographic approach In A. Jensen et al. (Eds.). Intercultural Competence. Vol. 2. The Adult Learner. (pp. 53–69). Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
Roberts, C. (1997). The year abroad as an ethnographic experience. In M. Byram (Ed.). Face to Face: Learning Language-and-Culture through Visits and Exchanges (pp. 62–76), London: CILT.
Roberts, C. (2003). Ethnography and cultural practice: Ways of learning during residence abroad. In G. Alred, M. Byram, and M. Fleming (Eds.) Intercultural Experience and Education (pp. 114–130). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Roberts, C., M. Byram, A. Barro, S. Jordan, and B. Street (2001). Language Learners as Ethnographers. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.
Spradley, J. and D. McCurdy. (1988). The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Societies. Chicago: Waveland Press.
Wagner, K. and Magistrale, T. (1999). Writing across Culture: An Introduction to Study Abroad and the Writing Process. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Co.
Ward, C., Bochner, S. and Furnham, A. (2001). The Psychology of Culture Shock. Hove, U.K.: Routledge.
Warden, M., Lapkin, S., Swain, M. and Hart, D. (1995). Adolescent language learners on a three-month exchange: Insights from their diaries. Foreign Language Annals, 28 (4), 537–550.
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2005-08-15
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Jackson, J. (2005). Assessing Intercultural Learning Through Introspective Accounts. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 11(1), 165–186. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v11i1.156
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