10. Beyond Proficiency Gains: Assessing the Academic, Cultural and Professional Impact of the Flagship Experience on Alumni

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Language Flagship: Creating Expectations and Opportunities for Professional- Level Language Learning in Undergraduate Education 9
8. 2. Laying the Groundwork: Programmatic Models in US Language Flagship Programs 29
9. 3. Adding Breadth to the Undergraduate Curriculum: Flagship Approaches to Interdisciplinary Language Learning 51
10. 4. The Road Through Superior: Building Learner Independence 70
11. 5. Maximizing Oral Proficiency Development via Telecollaborative Partnerships in the Portuguese Flagship Program 90
12. 6. Creating Collaborative Communities through Online Cafés 116
13. 7. Heritage Language Learners in Flagship Programs: Motivation, Language Proficiency and Intercultural Communicative Competence 137
14. 8. Assessing Language Proficiency and Intercultural Development in the Overseas Immersion Context 156
15. 9 .Overseas Internships in Advanced to Professional- Level Language Acquisition 177
16. 10. Beyond Proficiency Gains: Assessing the Academic, Cultural and Professional Impact of the Flagship Experience on Alumni 200
17. 11. Raise the Flag(ship)! Creating Hybrid Language Programs on the Flagship Model 224
18. Conclusion 244
19. Appendix A 248
20. Appendix B 250
21. Index 253