TY - JOUR AU - Colville-Hall , Susan AU - Adamowicz-Hariasz, Maria AU - Sidorova, Vladislava AU - Engelking, Tama PY - 2011/08/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Franco-American Teachers-in-Training: A Study of Best Practices in Teaching and Studying Abroad JF - Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad JA - Frontiers VL - 21 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.36366/frontiers.v21i1.313 UR - https://frontiersjournal.org/index.php/Frontiers/article/view/313 SP - 275-288 AB - <p>This paper presents a study that focuses on&nbsp;American pre-service teachers who taught in France from September to&nbsp;December 2009. The American participants were chosen to compare results with similar programs designed for American students studying&nbsp;abroad. It would be impossible to draw valid and reliable comparisons between&nbsp;the US and French programs because the two exchanges are very different. For future teachers,&nbsp;the intercultural competence they achieve abroad can help prepare them to&nbsp;meet the challenges of the increasingly diverse student population they will&nbsp;encounter in their classrooms when they return home and to be more capable&nbsp;of preparing citizens for the interconnected world of the 21st century.</p> ER -