Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education
The Student Experience
Editors: Fabricius, A., Preisler, Bent (Eds.)
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- About this book
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This book presents research that seeks to understand students' experiences of transnational mobility and transcultural interaction in the context of educational settings confronted with linguistic diversity.
- About the authors
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Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, University of Iceland Kevin S. Carroll, University of Puerto Rico Aintzane Doiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Anne H. Fabricius, Roskilde University, Denmark Claudia Herbas-Donoso, University of Puerto Rico Anne Holmen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Hafdis Ingvarsdóttir, University of Iceland Enric Llurda, Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain Catherine M. Mazak, University of Puerto Rico Hermine Penz, University of Graz, Austria Stuart Perrin, Xi'an Jiao-Tong-Liverpool University, China Bent Preisler, Roskilde University, Denmark Frauke Priegnitz, University of Hamburg, Germany Rosita L. Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Damian J. Rivers, Future University Hakodate, Japan Kimberly Santiago, Ohio State University, USA Alina Schartner, Newcastle University, UK Peter Sercombe, Newcastle University, UK Juan Manuel Sierra, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Gordon Slethaug, University of Waterloo, Canada Joan Turner, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Jane Vinther, Independent Scholar Tony Young, Newcastle University, UK
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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Culture Shock or Love at First Sight? Exploring the ‘Honeymoon’ Stage of the International Student Sojourn
Pages 12-33
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Student Adjustment: Diversity and Uniformity of Experience
Pages 34-55
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English Is Not Enough — Local and Global Languages in International Student Mobility: A Case Study of the Austrian University Context
Pages 56-91
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Students’ Representations of Multilingualism and Internationalization at Two Bilingual Universities in Spain
Pages 92-115
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education
- Book Subtitle
- The Student Experience
- Editors
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- A. Fabricius
- Bent Preisler
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-39747-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137397478
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-39746-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 331
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations
- Topics
