Understanding friendship and learning networks of international and host students using longitudinal Social Network Analysis

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-180

  Rienties, Bart ^a,b   Nolan, Eimear Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Friendship; Host students; International students; Learning; Longitudinal study; Pre post testing; Quantitative; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904726950     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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