Culture, Confidence, and Crêpes Sucrées: Exploring Teacher Candidate Perceptions of Francophone Homestay Community Leadership Experiences | Zendy

Daniel H. Jarvis | Zendy; Callie Mady | Zendy

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Culture, Confidence, and Crêpes Sucrées: Exploring Teacher Candidate Perceptions of Francophone Homestay Community Leadership Experiences

Author(s) -

Daniel H. Jarvis,

Callie Mady

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of language teaching and research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-0684

pISSN - 1798-4769

DOI - 10.17507/jltr.1204.02

Subject(s) - facilitator , psychology , employability , medical education , thematic analysis , trips architecture , perception , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , qualitative research , social psychology , social science , neuroscience , parallel computing , computer science

This study examines the perceptions of two groups of teacher candidates (TCs) who had participated in a 2-week, French immersion homestay Community Leadership Experience (CLE) in rural Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Canada. Based on individual participant interviews, the co-authors, who also each served as a Faculty Facilitator for several of these CLE trips (2015-2020), present thematic findings surrounding the five components (homestay, school placements, community volunteering, cultural workshops/events, and Quebec City trip), and perceived benefits of the program including accessibility, language acquisition and improvement, cultural awareness, self-confidence, career planning re-assessment (division/program), and future employability advantages.

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