The Effect of Study Abroad Homestay Placements: Participant Perspectives and Oral Proficiency Gains

Silvio, Francesca Di; Donovan, Anne; Malone, Margaret E.

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“…Hosts also play a role in engaging with their student and can take an active role in the students’ learning [23]. Preparing students and hosts before the experience can encourage the necessary actions to lead to the educational opportunities a homestay has to offer [11,15]. When students do engage with their hosts, they become more integrated into the family and have closer access to cultural experiences, depending on the depth of their relationship [12].…”

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The relevance and role of homestays in medical education: a scoping study

Hughes

Moshabela

Owen

et al. 2017

Medical Education Online

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Background: The community-based medical education curriculum is growing in popularity as a strategy to bring universal health coverage to underserved communities by providing medical students with hands-on training in primary health care. Accommodation and immersion of medical students within the community will become increasingly important to the success of community-based curricula. In the context of tourism, homestays, where local families host guests, have shown to provide an immersive accommodation experience. Objective: By exploring homestays in the educational context, this scoping study investigates their role in providing an immersive pedagogical experience for medical students. Design: A scoping review was performed using the online databases ScienceDirect and the Duke University Library Database, which searches Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, LexisNexis Academic, Web of Science, Proquest, PubMed and WorldCat. Using the inclusion term ‘homestays’ and excluding the term ‘tourism’, 181 results were returned. AClose assessment using inclusion criteria narrowed this to 14 relevant articles. Results: There is very little published research specific to the experience of medical students in community homestays, indicating a gap in the literature. However, the existing educational outcomes suggest homestays may have the potential to serve a significant role in medical education, especially as a component of decentralised or community-based programmes. The literature reveals that educational homestays influence language learning, cultural immersion, and the development of professional skills for health science careers. These outcomes relate to the level of engagement between students and hosts, including the catalytic role of community liaisons. Conclusions: Homestays offer a unique depth of experience that has the potential to enrich the education of participating students, and require further research, particularly in the context of distributed and decentralised training platforms for medical and health sciences students. Future studies should explore the potential for homestays as a pedagogical component of community-based medical curriculum. Abbreviations: CBME: Community-based medical education

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The relevance and role of homestays in medical education: a scoping study

Hughes

Moshabela

Owen

et al. 2017

Medical Education Online

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“…Even in terms of foreign language gains, it is reported that in some situations only modest improvements are found to be correlated with studying abroad (Freed, 1998;Freed, Segalowitz, & Dewey, 2004;Segalowitz et al, 2005). Recent findings have noted that the students' prior foreign language proficiency and their being home-stayed or locally immersed during study abroad, as far more important predictors of language gain (Di Silvio, Donovan, & Malone, 2014;Wilkinson, 1998). Even more surprising is that some research have shown that locally held foreign language immersion programs are said to be more effective than studying abroad (Freed et al, 2004).…”

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Study abroad tales: Experiences of international students in Taiwan

Ching¹,

Wang²,

Wen³

2016

IJRSP

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In Taiwan, the need to recruit for study abroad or foreign students is actually not by choice, but is of a necessity. For the 2016 school year alone, low numbers of birth-rate for the past two decades have led to the plunge of around 30,000 university enrollees. In effect, the Taiwan Ministry of Education encourages higher education institutions to become more internationalized and start accepting more foreign students. However, with the competition for study abroad students is quite high. Hence, in order to position Taiwan as an international education provider, focus on the quality of the academic and social aspects of study abroad program are seen as crucial. In light of these issues, the current paper depicts the results of a quasi-ethnographic study on the experiences of study abroad students in Taiwan. Primary objective of the study is to better understand how students adapt or adjust to an unfamiliar culture and at the same time understand the students' study processes. A total of 5 international graduate student participants underwent the one-year study. Data collection includes periodic interviews and observations. Results are then separated into five sections, namely: Scholarship and study abroad, value for money, first contact, occasions and holidays, and academic studies. Various insights and implications are provided. Lastly, the study also emphasizes the importance of qualitative studies in study abroad such as ethnographic ones, which is actually lacking in Taiwan.

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“…Because of these mixed results, recent literature, such as Knight and Schmidt‐Rinehart () has looked at the quality of students’ relationship/interactions with their host families and at pedagogical interventions that could enhance learner–host family relationships and communication, such as shared‐time maximization or the completion of conversation assignments that follow a task‐based language teaching framework (e.g., Ellis, ). To gain insights concerning the nature of exchanges between learners and host families, most of these studies have employed qualitative methods: personal interviews, questionnaires, journals (Knight & Schmidt‐Rinehart, ), e‐journals (e.g., Stewart, ), and online surveys (e.g., Di Silvio et al, ; Shiri, ). Evidence has suggested that task‐based assignments can increase the likelihood that learners will maintain a better, more beneficial relationship with their host families (Knight & Schmidt‐Rinehart, ).…”

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Expanding Boundaries: Current and New Directions in Study Abroad Research and Practice

Marijuan

Sanz

2018

Foreign Language Annals

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In spite of advances in the understanding of the effects of the immersion experience on language and cultural development in the last three decades, many questions in study abroad (SA) research remain unanswered. The present article offers a close examination of the field as it is today with an eye toward future trends and gaps in the literature. The authors discuss how the field is being reshaped in response to the preponderant role of new technologies in research and educational practices; to constant challenges to diversify access for minority students, including heritage language learners; and to meeting the growing demands of a globalized economy and workforce. Current trends in SA program design such as the incorporation of service‐learning, volunteering, and internships into the SA curriculum are also given special consideration. The article focuses on language development first and then on the factors influencing that development that are internal and external to learners. Interfaces between these areas are addressed. Subsections of the article provide an outline of an innovative SA research agenda as well as suggestions for rethinking SA program design and implementation.

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The Effect of Study Abroad Homestay Placements: Participant Perspectives and Oral Proficiency Gains

Cited by 50 publications

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The relevance and role of homestays in medical education: a scoping study

The relevance and role of homestays in medical education: a scoping study

Study abroad tales: Experiences of international students in Taiwan

Expanding Boundaries: Current and New Directions in Study Abroad Research and Practice

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