What is it about?
Many explorations of international student experience focuses on the traveling student. This paper explores the experiences of students who do not travel but who take responsibility for hosting, supporting and translating for visiting students.
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Why is it important?
Global mobility experiences are usually evaluated in terms of what they can do for visiting students from universities of the Global North. This paper explores the outcomes of Thai students who host other students on their mobility experiencing and demonstrates they too gain significantly from the experience. However the challenges and stresses of their role is not recognised or well understood.
Perspectives
This paper provides an opportunity to hear from students who are rarely included in research about internationalisation and mobility - the students of the host university. As such it is a unique perspective.
Debra Miles
James Cook University
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This page is a summary of: Stepping Forward to Learn: Thai Students Reflect on Hosting Australian International Exchange Students, Journal of Studies in International Education, August 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1028315318797177.
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