Residence abroad for non-linguists
Robert Crawshaw, Lancaster University, Tim Lewis and Ursula Stickler, University of Sheffield
This paper will explore good practice in integrating a period of residence abroad into the study of non-language disciplines, examining how this may take place before, during and after the period spent abroad. The paper will draw both on established experience and on original (qualitative) data collected within the framework of the Interculture project to explore how differences in preparation influence the experience of language specialists and non-language specialists during their period of residence abroad, how these two sets of students differ in their uses of the support tools during the PRA and what differences in re-integration and de-briefing they face on their return.