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    "pk": 2538,
    "title": "Cross-Cultural Understanding in Immersion Students: A Mixed Methods Study",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This mixed methods study explored the development of cross-cultural understanding in a unique population of students in the U.S.: English-dominant students who had attended French or Spanish elementary immersion schools.  Despite the fact that immersion schools have as a goal cross-cultural understanding and appreciation and affirmation of diversity, research has shown that this goal is not always met.  This study featured one hundred thirty-one students from five immersion schools who responded to surveys, and 33 of those students who were interviewed.  Data analysis procedures included a theme analysis of the interviews, a statistical analysis of the surveys, and an integrated consideration of the findings.  It was found in both the quantitative and the qualitative data that the successful development of cross-cultural understanding in these immersion students was not necessarily a function of school activities.  These students did not receive the same messages about the target culture(s), nor did they understand the concept of culture in the same way.  However, cross-cultural understanding was certainly attainable, particularly with extracurricular exposure to the target language and culture, like living with members of the target culture(s) or undertaking meaningful travel experiences.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "immersion education"
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        {
            "word": "Foreign language education"
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        {
            "word": "motivation"
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        {
            "word": "Culture"
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        {
            "word": "mixed methods"
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        {
            "word": "Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23v8615w",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Pamela",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Wesely",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Iowa",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2011-02-03T22:06:18Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-02-03T22:06:18Z",
    "date_published": "2012-08-06T17:57:15Z",
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