内容简介
本书通过问卷调查和访谈的形式分析了海外交换经历对大学生个人综合发展的影响，主要结果如下：（1）学生出国交换的目的和期望众多；（2）通过交换，学生们的学业和语言收穫颇丰，提高了跨文化交际能力，增强了中国人的身份意识，提高了独立生活的能力和在不同文化中生活的能力。同时他们也发现要真正融入当地文化和生活中仍存在一定难度。目录
Contents
Preface i
List of Tables ix
List of Diagrams xi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Study Abroad and Whole-Person Development 5
2.1 The Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory 5
2.2 Empirical Studies on Study Abroad 8
2.2.1 Expectations and Concerns of SA 9
2.2.2 Academic and Linguistic Gains During SA 10
2.2.3 Changes in Intercultural Communication Competence
During SA 17
2.2.4 Changes in Self-identities During SA 23
2.2.5 Changes in Other Aspects Before and After SA 26
2.3 Summary 27
Chapter 3 The Study 29
3.1 Context 29
3.2 Research Design 30
3.2.1 Participants 30
3.2.2 Instruments 38
3.2.3 Data Collection Procedure 39
3.2.4 Data Analyses 39
Chapter 4 Survey Findings...
4.1AimsandExpectationsoftheExchangeProgram41
4.2ConcernsAboutInternationalAffairs45
viExchangeAbroadandUniversityStudents’Whole-PersonDevelopment:
ACaseStudy
4.3Self-perceivedWorriesAbout,Preparationforand
ImportanceoftheExchangeProgram46
4.4Self-ratedProficiencyintheLanguageofInstruction49
4.5RecommendationforStudentstoJoinExchangePrograms50
Chapter5MotivationandConcernsfortheSA—Interview
Findings52
5.1TheInterviewees’MotivationtoJointheExchangeProgram52
5.2TheInterviewees’AimsandExpectationsfortheSA56
5.3TheInterviewees’WorriesandConcernsAbouttheSA61
5.3.1LevelofPreparationforandGeneralWorriesAbouttheSA61
5.3.2Interviewees’Self-perceivedBiggestChallengesDuringtheSA63
5.4ActualChallengesDuringtheSA66
Chapter6InterviewFindingsofthe12One-semester
Sojourners70
6.1Self-perceivedChangesinAcademicandLinguisticCompetence70
6.1.1ChangesinAcademicCompetence70
6.1.2ChangesinLinguisticCompetence72
6.2Self-perceivedChangesinInterculturalCommunication
Competence74
6.2.1LearningoftheHostCulture74
6.2.2ChangesinInterculturalCommunicationCompetence80
6.2.3ChangesinOpennesstoOtherCultures83
6.3Self-perceivedChangesinSelf-identities88
6.3.1ChangesinthePerceptionoftheSelf88
6.3.2ChangesintheSenseofNationalIdentity91
6.4Self-perceivedChangesinSelf-development95
Chapter7InterviewFindingsoftheThree1-yearSojourners97
7.1Self-perceivedChangesinAcademicandLinguisticCompetence97
Contentsvii
7.1.1ChangesinAcademicCompetence97
7.1.2ChangesinLinguisticCompetence99
7.2Self-perceivedChangesinInterculturalCommunication
Competence100
7.2.1LearningoftheHostCulture100
7.2.2ChangesinInterculturalCommunicationCompetence103
7.3Self-perceivedChangesinSelf-identities105
7.4Self-perceivedChangesinSelf-development107
Chapter8DiscussionandImplications109
8.1Discussion109
8.1.1WorriesandConcernsAbouttheSA109
8.1.2ChangesinAcademicandLinguisticCompetence111
8.1.3ChangesinInterculturalCommunicationCompetence114
8.1.4ChangesinSelf-identities117
8.1.5ChangesinSelf-development118
8.2Implications119
