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1	An assessment of Japanese student intercultural interaction during short-term study abroad in the United States Konstantinakos, Cyrus Segawa 27 September 2022 (has links) This study examined the developmental value of Japanese student intercultural interaction during short-term study abroad in the United States. It utilized a modified version of the Study Abroad Social Interaction Questionnaire for data collection and an approach to analysis framed by Bronfenbrenner and his colleagues’ bioecological theory of human development. Past research framed by the bioecological theory has identified sojourner personal characteristics as the most significant factors influencing the amount and quality of intercultural interaction that students experience during study abroad; this study, which included participants of two different programs, found characteristics of context and time to be equally if not more significant. Implications are presented as practical recommendations for programs, participants, policymakers, and other stakeholders in intercultural development during study abroad. Education Bioecological theory Bronfenbrenner PPCT model Proximal processes SASIQ
2	Better Speakers Make More Friends: Predictors of Social Network Development Among Study-Abroad Students Brockbank, J Wyatt 12 December 2011 (has links) (PDF) Social network development has been studied in the social sciences for the last several decades, but little work has applied social network theory to study-abroad research. This study seeks to quantitatively describe factors that predict social network formation among study-abroad students while in the host countries. Social networks were measured in terms of the number of friends the students made, the number of distinct social groups reported, and the number of friends within those groups. The Study Abroad Social Interaction Questionnaire was compared against these pre-trip factors: intercultural competence, target-language proficiency, prior missionary experience, gender, study-abroad program, neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, openness to new experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Results showed that pre-trip oral proficiency in the target language was the strongest predictor of the number of friends made in-country. Certain programs showed stronger predictive statistics in terms of size of largest social group, number of social groups, and number of friends made. A distinction is made between total number of friends and number of friends who are more likely to be native speakers. Neither intercultural competence nor personality showed a significant correlation with the number of friendships made during study abroad. study abroad social networks predictors dispersion density egocentric social network analysis SASIQ OPI IDI NEO-FFI BYU China Egypt France Mexico Russia Spain Chinese Arabic French Spanish Russian intercultural competency intercultural sensitivity social interaction personality language proficiency neuroticism extroversion openness to new experience agreeableness conscientiousness target language second language gender returned missionary missionaries language use correlation regression

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An assessment of Japanese student intercultural interaction during short-term study abroad in the United States

Better Speakers Make More Friends: Predictors of Social Network Development Among Study-Abroad Students