{"id":410,"date":"2018-03-19T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/?p=410"},"modified":"2018-03-19T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:45:12","slug":"assignment-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/2018\/03\/19\/assignment-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Student Learning Abroad<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>I found this article particularly interesting, perhaps because it speaks, at least partially, to the reason(s) that my experience abroad was not successful: a lack of academic rigor in courses taken, excessive drinking and &#8220;related forms of misbehavior&#8221; due to a sudden absence of adult supervision, and an unwillingness to engage entirely with the host culture.<\/p>\n<p>I was unaware that the three paradigms existed, formerly under the assumption that almost all study abroad programs were comparable in structure. Although I can&#8217;t personally attest to the success rate of any of the approaches, having lived abroad under a work visa, I can understand why that which advocates for regular interventions staged by educators would be the most beneficial to students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Intercultural Communication:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article was much more difficult for me to get through, however the section dedicated to the differences between monocultural communication (similarity-based) and intercultural communication (difference-based) gave me a perspective I otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have had in reference to my own experiences. For example, I&#8217;d never before considered that the relationships I developed with people who were also expatriates in the city that I lived in, though from different countries than myself, were based upon our continual attempts to not <em>reconcile<\/em> our differences, but acknowledge them in a way that allowed us to work to maintain respect for all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Learning Abroad: I found this article particularly interesting, perhaps because it speaks, at least partially, to the reason(s) that my experience abroad was not successful: a lack of academic rigor in courses taken, excessive drinking and &#8220;related forms of misbehavior&#8221; due to a sudden absence of adult supervision, and an unwillingness to engage entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}