Download or read book My Experience Studying Abroad in Japan written by Raj Patel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going abroad for the first time will be one of the best decisions of your life. It was for me when I studied abroad for the first time in Japan for the summer of 2016. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat if I could. To have the privilege of traveling abroad as a college student doesn't have to break the bank, and it shouldn't either. If you are determined enough, you can procure enough scholarships to fully fund your trip abroad. Your time spent in another country will bring along a slew of new experiences for you. New culture. New people. New foods. New places. The question isn't a matter of why you should study abroad; it's a matter of why you wouldn't want to!

Download or read book 50 Years of US Study Abroad Students written by Sarah R. Asada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, Japan has been a historical leading study abroad destination for US undergraduate students. This book explores the long-term impacts of study abroad through a lens of knowledge diplomacy and the cultivation of individuals with understanding of the host country and world through transformative international experiences. Based on extensive original survey data and interviews with alumni over nearly 50 years of the Japan Study Program, the book provides a historical perspective on the personal impacts of study abroad on academic, professional, and personal development. The author further explores knowledge diplomacy seen as the creation of an in-depth understanding of the host country, familiarity of the host region, and awakened consciousness of the world through subsequent life experiences. Recipient of the 2020 Best Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad and International Students Special Interest Group.

Download or read book How to Work Travel and Study in Japan written by Natalia Doan and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in a short term stay or extended visit to Japan, How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan provides practical advice and straightforward solutions to concerns such as how to find a job or study abroad program in Japan, how to write a resume in Japanese, where to find cool restaurants and fun activities, and more. How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan includes over one hundred easy-to-read charts and photographs that will help you enjoy, explore, and navigate your stay in Japan. This fact-packed guide also includes chapters on interesting aspects of Japanese culture, as well as tips on how to make the most of your experience abroad whether or not you can speak Japanese. Full of insider information, How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan is the must-read guide for those interested in working, traveling, or studying in Japan. **For the full color edition, click on "See all formats and editions" and select "April 24, 2014".**

Download or read book Guide to Studying Abroad written by William W. Cressey and published by The Princeton Review. This book was released on 2004 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought of spending a semester in London or Paris? Or maybe somewhere in Italy, Spain, or Mexico? Each year more than 140,000 students in the United States take advantage of study abroad programs. Guide to Studying Abroad shows you how to find the best opportunities that will help you to accomplish your academic goals, with profiles of more than 875 programs. You'll find detailed information on these programs, including - location - living arrangements - eligibility requirements - college credit availability - cost and financial aid - immunization and visa information - relevant contacts In addition, we offer expert advice on - researching and applying to programs - choosing the best programs for you - financing your study abroad session - preparing for your time abroad - health and safety issues overseas - special considerations for groups who are underrepresented in study abroad Studying abroad will build your language skills and your cultural awareness, and it will add sparkle to your resume. But don't leave home without researching all of your options so that you can make the most of your time away.

Download or read book How to Work Travel and Study in Japan written by Natalia Doan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in a short term stay or an extended visit to Japan, "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" provides practical advice and straightforward solutions to concerns such as how to find a job or study abroad program in Japan, how to write a resume in Japanese, where to find cool restaurants and fun activities, and more. "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" includes over one hundred easy-to-read charts and photographs that will help you enjoy, explore, and navigate your stay in Japan. This fact-packed guide also includes chapters on interesting aspects of Japanese culture, as well as tips on how to make the most of your experience abroad whether or not you can speak Japanese. Full of insider information, "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" is the must-read guide for those interested in working, traveling, or studying in Japan. **This is the full color version. For the black and white edition, select the other paperback from the drop-down menu.**

Download or read book How to Work Travel and Study in Japan written by Natalia Doan and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in a short term stay or an extended visit to Japan, "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" provides practical advice and straightforward solutions to concerns such as how to find a job or study abroad program in Japan, how to write a resume in Japanese, where to find cool restaurants and fun activities, and more. "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" includes over one hundred easy-to-read charts and photographs that will help you enjoy, explore, and navigate your stay in Japan. This fact-packed guide also includes chapters on interesting aspects of Japanese culture, as well as tips on how to make the most of your experience abroad whether or not you can speak Japanese. Full of insider information, "How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan" is the must-read guide for those interested in working, traveling, or studying in Japan. **This is the full color version. For the black and white edition, select the other paperback from the drop-down menu.**

Download or read book Transforming Study Abroad written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

Download or read book Diversity in Japanese Education written by Naoko Araki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. – Paulo Freire Diversity in Japanese Education explores ‘self-experience’ of individual learners and educators in Japan. The word ‘diversity’ is not limited to one’s ethnic background. Here, diversity refers to one’s pedagogical experiences and life experiences; to the norms, beliefs and values that impact such relations. These experiences and relations are fluid as they are shaped and reshaped in global and glocal settings. They are also reflected in praxis of English language learning and teaching in Japan. The authors’ educational backgrounds vary but they all share the common ground of being educators in Japan. Through being involved in learning and/or teaching English language in Japan, they have witnessed and experienced ‘diversity’ in their own pedagogical context. The book focuses on shifting critical and reflexive eyes on qualitative studies of pedagogical experiences rather than presenting one ‘fixed’ view of Japanese education.

Download or read book Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education written by Robert Coelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an analysis of the relationship between Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education, this book considers the perspectives of both students and employers to illustrate how to reach positive employment outcomes for all stakeholders. Through a wide range of international case studies, this book delivers some key messages, including: The articulation of the link between internationalization and employability; The need for higher education institutions to communicate the benefits of an internationalized higher education beyond the academy; The need to ensure equity of graduate outcomes through enhanced internationalization at home; The impact of immigration policy on national benefits of internationalization of higher education; International study as a route to employability for migration purposes and building knowledge-based economies. Considering the skills developed by students through mobility experiences, while exploring the need for enhanced internationalization of the curriculum at home, Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education will be a key resource for any higher education policy makers or university staff associated with careers, employment, and integrated learning. It contains important messages for employers and recruiters.

Download or read book Language Learning Digital Communications and Study Abroad written by Levi Durbidge and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of, and negotiated through, tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity and place. By examining the experiences of a group of Japanese high school students during, and after, a year embedded in families and schools abroad in countries across Europe, Asia and North and South America, it provides the first in-depth exploration of the role of mobile communications technology in study abroad. This includes its facilitation of strategic language learning, host community participation and the construction of multilingual identities. The student accounts covered in this book explore a number of other critical issues in contemporary study abroad, including translanguaging practices, racialised identities, the role of the host family and the status of English as a lingua franca in multilingual environments. The results demonstrate the importance of understanding study abroad and related language learning as intersecting with global flows of people and information.

Download or read book Early Career Teachers in Higher Education written by Jody Crutchley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Career Teachers in Higher Education explores the experiences of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) through 13 personal teaching journeys from academics working across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and South America. This edited volume contains the subjective narrative of each contributor's entry into academia, their pedagogic practice and the development of their multiple teaching identities. Their personal narratives and testimonies presented here will provide a valuable resource for ECTs and academics around the world as they begin teaching in higher education. In addition, this edited book highlights contemporary issues, such as precarity, casualisation, fragmentation of academic responsibilities and intersectionality, that shape contemporary ECT workloads.

Download or read book Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context written by Naoko Taguchi and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the topic of interactional competence in the area of learning Japanese as a second language. It presents data collected from learners studying abroad in Japan to explain developments in their interactional competence as found in their use of speech styles and co-construction of an utterance. The book also offers insights into the types of learning resources and experiences study abroad offers to assist learners' progress.

Download or read book Integrative Learning in US Undergraduate Public Health Education Effective High Impact Practices written by Andrew Harver and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This current Research Topic does not derive directly from Boyer’s Model of Scholarship, but nonetheless represents a well-timed exploration and example of where higher education has progressed in bringing the innovative, integrative conceptualization of higher education scholarship and practice laid out by Boyer, to realization through the growing arena of undergraduate public health programs. At the same time, the authors included here were invited to specifically address a second arena of scholarly practice associated with additional elements of Boyer’s legacy, effective High-Impact Practices (HIPs) - practices that engage students, faculty and often broader communities in integrative learning that connect academic and extra-academic learning environments. Undergraduate public health programs are perfectly positioned to provide a framework for integrated learning through High-Impact Practices. Such practices encompass not only the essential learning outcomes that employers continue to demand – critical thinking, working with diverse others, written and oral communications, ethics, analysis, etc. – but also a curriculum that is scaffolded and replete with opportunities to practice and enhance performance and application of knowledge and abilities to important personal, social and global challenges and needs.

Download or read book L2 Learning During Study Abroad written by Yoshifumi Fukada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents three case studies that examine how English language students construct affinity spaces to secure target language-mediated socializing opportunities with local people in both academic and non-academic contexts. The studies were conducted in Hawaii, the U.S and Tokyo, Japan and focus on the Japanese author of this book, an English as second language (ESL) speaker and learner, during his sabbatical in Hawaii; on a Japanese international student who studied in Hawaii; and on a Chinese international student studying in Japan. The studies hold a variety of implications for classroom practice, including helping students recognize the value of cultural and social capital in relation to their linguistic skills.

Download or read book Study Abroad as Transformative Learning Opportunity written by Tomoko Wakana and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all international students studying abroad experience similar challenges with their target language, academic courses, establishing new social networks, and changing perceptions of themselves. However, the experience of these students can vary drastically in the end with respect to linguistic gains and quality of participation in social interactions. To scrutinize the puzzle of uneven study-abroad outcomes among international students--as well as to seek possible explanations for why East Asian international students in particular face hardships more than their counterparts from other regions of the world--this dissertation investigated willingness to communicate, social interactions, and identity development of Japanese international students during their study abroad in the Midwest region of the U.S. Participant narratives were analyzed using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical framework and narrative inquiry as a methodology. Impressions of themselves that participants wanted to present and connections they wanted to make with certain individuals influenced their use of English. For example, beliefs about English played a big role. When participants focused on accuracy and native-like pronunciation, they were less willing to speak English. In contrast, for participants who viewed English purely as a communicative tool, it was psychologically less challenging to use their English regardless of proficiency. The way participants viewed the English they speak and their English-speaking selves shaped decisions regarding who they would and would not interact with. Consistent with some past research, participants found it difficult to make and develop friendships with host nationals (in this study, Americans), in spite of their aspirations to interact. On the other hand, some participants showed a desire to distance themselves from those who are culturally similar to themselves, which is contrary to the commonly believed notion that East Asian students tend to form cliques with co-nationals and co-racials. Participants found their East Asian outward appearance stigmatizing because of an assumption among many host students that East Asians do not speak English proficiently. Additionally, participants were well aware of the assumption among host nationals that East Asians cling to each other and form exclusive cliques, which participants considered shameful given that they are studying "abroad." Feeling confined by their outward appearances and labels, participants engaged in acts that freed them from negative stereotypes by trying to distance themselves from fellow East Asians. They wanted to be a part of the non-stigmatized, American student population. In trying to understand these participants, the concept of human development stood out as especially promising. Most participants noted that they "grew up as human beings" during study abroad. I would argue that the experiences of my participants can largely be explained in terms of cosmopolitanism. Although there is a plethora of studies on linguistic use and gains, social interactions, identity development, and intercultural learning during study abroad, few researchers have made use of the concept of "human development" in their studies. I suggest further studies linking holistic human development and study abroad

Download or read book Having a Fulfilling Life As an International Student in Japan written by Chinthaka Premachandra and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of international students coming to Japan is on the rise, and it is important for them to focus on having a productive, successful academic life in Japan. To this end, this book offers a great deal of important information. This book was written as a guide for international students already studying in Japan, students living outside Japan who are considering studying in Japan, international student advisors, international student academic counselors, personnel at universities who advise international students, and Japanese students who are considering studying abroad. The wealth of information contained within will be of use to students in Japanese universities and graduate schools. The author of this book was born in Sri Lanka and is currently serving as an assistant professor at Tokyo University of Science. He spent approximately eleven and a half years as an international student in Japan. This book is based on his experiences.

Download or read book Oishisou The Ultimate Anime Dessert Cookbook written by Hadley Sui and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snack your way through the colorful world of anime with over sixty delicious dessert recipes inspired by your favorite Japanese animated shows and movies. The world of anime comes to life in your kitchen with this adorable cookbook featuring over sixty recipes for desserts and treats inspired by the unique culture and motifs of this iconic Japanese art form. Recipes include traditional Japanese favorites (such as taiyaki and melon pan), memorable dishes depicted in popular shows (such as Rare Cheesecake from Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card and Hishi Mochi from Shirokuma Cafe), and foods inspired by classic anime tropes and imagery (such as Valentine’s Day Chocolates and Christmas Cake). Fans will be delighted to create and savor sweets and pastries featured in their beloved shows, as well as learning about the origins of these iconic confections. Featuring gorgeous food photography, Oishisou!! The Ultimate Anime Dessert Cookbook is the perfect gift for foodies, lovers of Japanese culture, and anime fans everywhere. 60+ RECIPES: Dozens of recipes for delicious desserts and pastries featured in a wide variety of anime series, all drawn directly from the unique confectionary cultures of Japanese festivals, bakeries, candy shops, cafes, and more! AUTHENTIC ANIME INSPIRATION: Learn to make the same mouth watering treats enjoyed by fan-favorite characters in some of your favorite Japanese animated shows and films. FOR BEGINNERS AND BEYOND: Easy-to-follow instructions make it simple for chefs of every skill level to make anime-inspired sweets. FILLED WITH GORGEOUS PHOTOS: Oishisou!! (pronounced "OH-ee-she-so") means “That looks tasty!” The stunning photos throughout this cookbook celebrate the artistry of these recipes, highlighting unique treats and sweets that look absolutely delicious. PERFECT GIFT FOR ANIME AND MANGA FANS: Oishisou!! The Ultimate Anime Dessert Cookbook is a fantastic gift for anime and manga enthusiasts, as well as fans of Japanese-inspired pastries and sweets.