Online Intercultural Education and Study Abroad

By critically investigating the effectiveness of study abroad interventions, this book provides intercultural education researchers and practitioners with theory-based practical ideas for eLearning strategies and online mentoring to help students maximize their intercultural education journey, intercultural competence and awareness, and social engagement while abroad.

Jane Jackson is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1 Language and (inter)cultural learning through study abroad; 2 The design and development of online intercultural intervention; 3 Ethnographic investigation of online course; 4 Hardy's story; 5 Suki's story; 6 Chloe's story; 7 Dora's story; 8 Online intercultural education: Affordances and constraints; 9 Lessons learned: Optimising study abroad through online intercultural education