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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Vinther, Jane; Slethaug, Gordon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
Increasingly students want to go abroad to study--to further their knowledge of English, experience a new culture and cultivate skills. Universities have been actively courting these students, sometimes without regard to their impact on responsibilities of heads of department, secretaries and support staff. Much is written on the intercultural…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Faculty
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Kim, Jeongyeon; Tatar, Bradley; Choi, Jinsook – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
This study aims to contrastively examine Korean and international students' experiences of taking subject courses at a Korean university. Focusing on the viewpoints of the students, rather than central authorities, we attempt to reveal how language use and cultural factors are interpenetrated in the praxis of English-medium instruction (EMI).…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Korean, Interviews, English (Second Language)
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Moloney, Robyn – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
Recent years have witnessed rapid growth in language learning within online collaborative learning projects constructed between educational institutions in different cultural and pedagogic contexts. This qualitative case study investigated the role of teacher communication in a short online project between language classes in secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Shie, Jian-Shiung – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
This paper reports on an exploratory study of one specific aspect of intercultural literacy: the activation of intercultural intertexts. Readers of intercultural intertexts fall into two general groups: knowing readers (who know the source text) and unknowing readers (who do not know the source text). This paper aims to explore Taiwanese unknowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Murata, Kumiko – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
This paper explores difficulties students may experience in giving opinions in class, drawing on data gleaned from the administration of questionnaires and interviews to Japanese and British students. The results show that the students from both groups regard highly of giving and exchanging opinions in class; however, there is a marked difference…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Opinions, Comparative Analysis, Questionnaires
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Gu, Qing – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
This article examines variations in beliefs and practices between British English language teaching (ELT) specialists and their Chinese colleagues in a cross-cultural educational development project which used interviews and a questionnaire survey to gather the perceptions and retrospective experiences of Chinese tertiary teachers and expatriate…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators