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1	An Evaluative Study of the Returned Missionary Class at Brigham Young University Wyatt, Arwen Tanis 19 December 2013 (has links) (PDF) This thesis reports on an evaluative study of the first 300-level Spanish class at Brigham Young University. The information gathered describes the history of the class and changes in curriculum and goals over the years. It also describes students who have taken the class: native Spanish speakers, heritage speakers, returned missionaries, students from lower-levels, students with a background in another Romance language, and presents information as to how well the class has met the needs of each group of students, as well as suggestions to better meet student needs. Results indicate that there is a general satisfaction with the first 300-level Spanish class across the different categories of Spanish students in this class. Data also indicate that additional review of the class may be beneficial in order to 1) increase horizontal articulation, 2) better meet General Education requirements, 3) increase the student preparedness from Spanish 206 to 321, and 4) improve instructor training. Returned missionary evaluation Spanish upper-division Spanish lower-level Spanish
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 Evaluative Study of the Returned Missionary Class at Brigham Young University

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