Exploring conditions to enhance student/host family interaction abroad

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-71

  Knight, Susan M ^a   Schmidt Rinehart, Barbara C ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASHLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation class; Family interaction; Homestay; Spanish; Study abroad; Task based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956574341     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01060.x     Document Type: Article

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