A interculturalidade e os programas de mobilidade estudantil: uma amostragem com participantes do AFS Intercultural Programs

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Rudolf, Lilian
• Orientador(a): Hanna, Vera Lúcia Harabagi
• Banca de defesa: Guimarães, Alexandre Huady Torres , Casagrande, Nancy dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Letras
• Departamento: Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: interculturalidade; língua, cultura; comunicação intercultural; competência intercultural; mobilidade estudantil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: intercultural; language; culture; intercultural communication; intercultural competence; student mobility
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25336

This work joins the learning line of research of foreign languages, focusing on English language and the role of interculturalism in the student mobility programs, highlighting the high school program (High School) offered by non-profit organization AFS Intercultural Programs (formerly American Fields Service) based in the United States of America . The main objective of the study is to understand the experience of intercultural acquired an exchange program in the host country, in which the exchange student will live with a native family, will attend a community school, study subjects related to High School; highlight that context living with a new culture for school through, club, family that will host him and new friendships that he will make. Discuss beyond intercultural concepts, the binomial language - culture, the relationship between language, culture and identity, intercultural communication and intercultural competence. The authors examine the impact that the exchange program has on lives of the participants to return to their country of origin, Brazil, in the choice of occupation, in the labor market, in relation to personal, academic and professional issues as well as on items such as maturity, tolerance, leadership, respect, independence, organization, cultural background and development of intercultural competence. The theoretical framework that supports the study focuses on key concepts for language -related work, culture, identity, intercultural communication and intercultural competence as well as student mobility. Scholars such as: Kramsch, Hall, Byram, Fleming, Valdes, Signorini, Laraia, Hertsgaard, Nye Junior, Hanna, Chauí , among others. To achieve our results we'll search to be drawn from a questionnaire administered to a group of AFS Intercultural Programs of students from different regions of Brazil that made the exchange in the United States at different times. The questionnaire will be answered by e-mail containing multiple choice questions , with the exception of the last three open questions.