2014 年 1 巻 2 号 p. 21-29
This article provides an overview of the Overseas Internship Program of National Institute of Technology (NIT) and reports its effect on NIT students’ motivation and actions toward the learning of foreign languages and the understanding of different cultures. The program was designed to offer students of the advanced engineering courses and would-be students in the next academic year an opportunity to have hands-on training for about three weeks in foreign offices of Japanese companies in 2008. Since then, the number of students who participate in the internship program and the cooperative companies have been gradually increasing. Therefore, the program has made a great contribution to the development of global human resources at NIT. The student who participated in the program last March and interned at the engineering company in Malaysia was also motivated by languages and cultures, and she realized the importance of having a positive intention and making an effort to communicate with people from other countries in the current globalized society.
