Open AccessEXPLORING STUDENTS' LIVED EXPERIENCES IN A LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM: PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
Author(s) -
Dahlia Dwedar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
xi'nan jiaotong daxue xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 0258-2724
DOI - 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.6.65
Subject(s) - arabic , foreign language , psychology , perception , language acquisition , pedagogy , medical education , mathematics education , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , neuroscience
With the cooperation of the Military Intelligence Foreign Language Training Center (MIFLTC), the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center has put together an intensive iso-immersive language pilot program to equip the US troops with the language and cultural knowledge they need to acquire to facilitate their missions. The problem is a gap in the literature regarding the students' lived experiences of the Arabic language programs and in category IV languages, pilot programs in general. This research aimed to explore the lived experiences of the 24-week Arabic language pilot program students and gather and analyze data about the participant students' perceptions of the MIFLTC's contribution to developing their Arabic language learning and culture competency skills. A volunteered sample of 9 students from the 24-week program was utilized. An open-ended questionnaires list was used to conduct the interviews with the participants for data collection.