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American students abroad: Negotiation of difference?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

Celeste Kinginger
Celeste Kinginger*
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Pennsylvania State University, [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper considers the ways in which American students' active engagement in local host communities abroad is at risk. Constraining forces include the new demographics of American study abroad, prejudicial attitudes toward international education and sheltered program designs, a research enterprise committed to representing the perspectives of students primarily, and the influence of globalization on communicative practice and habits of thought. To counter these influences, the elements of an activist stance are proposed.

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Plenary Speeches
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Language Teaching , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 216 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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