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Maximizing Study Abroad: A Student's Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
Aimed at students who want to make the most of their study abroad experience, this flexible and user-friendly guide helps students identify and use a wide variety of language and culture learning strategies. The Guide begins with three inventories designed to help students be more aware of how they currently learn language and culture. The following sections of the guide provide students with tools and creative activities that they can use to enhance their favored learning strategies and try out unfamiliar ones. Students can use this guide as they prepare for study abroad, during their experience, and once they return.
280 pages, Paperback
Published February 22, 2002
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September 19, 2016
What a great guide; I would make this required reading for my students if I could! The book touches on a number of key concepts and theories about cultural adaptation and language acquisition (kind of like a one-stop shop for your cultural adaptation essentials), and provides some great tools that students can employ to effectively prepare themselves and make the most of their time abroad in the way that makes sense for them.
In some ways, I think it would also be relevant for students or others who have returned from a time abroad in terms of helping them to process their experience and extract meaning and reflection in ways they may not have been able to do otherwise - I know I found myself doing that while reading and I now have plans to journal retroactively to put as much as I can down on paper!
I initially read it to get some ideas on how to flesh-out my pre-departure orientations, but it ended up making me want to go abroad myself to try out the strategies the guide proposes! (Now to convince my bosses that's a good idea. ;) )
In some ways, I think it would also be relevant for students or others who have returned from a time abroad in terms of helping them to process their experience and extract meaning and reflection in ways they may not have been able to do otherwise - I know I found myself doing that while reading and I now have plans to journal retroactively to put as much as I can down on paper!
I initially read it to get some ideas on how to flesh-out my pre-departure orientations, but it ended up making me want to go abroad myself to try out the strategies the guide proposes! (Now to convince my bosses that's a good idea. ;) )
July 1, 2015
A little dry but I think overall it will be helpful
April 29, 2015
A very good book about preparing for your study abroad experience.
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