This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the key issues and
developments in study abroad research and practice with a specific focus on the intercultural …

Discourses of global education, citizenship and competence have been characterising the
higher education literature in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic has both heightened …

The inclusion of intercultural communication and intercultural competence in English
language education in Chinese Higher Education is now firmly established in the 'National …

Developing intercultural awareness among participants is an objective of many short-term
study abroad (SA) programmes. However, such programmes often focus on essentialist …

This book unites a range of emerging topics in the burgeoning transdisciplinary fields of
second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context. It explores key …

Study abroad opportunities can contribute significantly to the development of higher
education students. However, participants' preparation experiences and future-oriented …

In an overview article prepared well over 20 years ago, Coleman (1997) lamented the
absence of research-generated knowledge about language learning in study abroad. In the …

Understanding Student Mobility in Europe interprets student mobility in European higher
education through an active dialogue between disciplines, voices and variables of interest …

Virtual exchange is an educational approach that uses technology to bring together people
from geographically and/or culturally distant locations in sustained online interactions, often …

This paper explores the role of a series of intercultural dialogues deployed as an
intercultural intervention in scaffolding the development of interculturality of Chinese …