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Direct linkZlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga, Ed.; Nell-Müller, Sarah, Ed.; Happ, Roland, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2021
This book discusses digital learning opportunities in higher education for refugees with different educational, social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Based on findings from practical studies and research projects from several countries, the book highlights the numerous challenges when it comes to the successful integration of refugees into…
Descriptors: Refugees, Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
Peer reviewedSelvadurai, Ranjani – Community Review, 1992
Describes common problems faced by international students studying in the United States, including language and cultural difficulties both in and out of the classroom. Suggests that institutions of higher learning should assist in fostering mutual understanding between international and native students. (MAB)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedIma, Kenji; Rumbaut, Ruben G. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1989
A study comparing the educational performance of limited-English-proficient (LEP) and fluent-English-proficient (FEP) Southeast Asian students as a whole with that of other LEP and FEP ethnic groups finds that the five main Indochinese ethnic groups exhibit significant socioeconomic and ethnocultural diversity, impacting on their academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences
Ascher, Carol – Equity and Choice, 1990
Southeast Asian refugee youth in the United States must contend with significant cultural differences and long-term adjustment stress. While struggling to develop an adult identity, these adolescents must also work through the trauma of being refugees, adapting to a new culture without relinquishing the heritage fundamental to their development.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents
Barber, Elinor G.; And Others – Engineering Education, 1987
Reports on a study into the perceived problems that foreign graduate students in engineering pose to engineering faculty, as well as the solutions to those problems. Summarizes survey responses relating to communication and language difficulties, program and academic performance, and social and cultural factors. (TW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Science, Communications
Peer reviewedRamirez, Bruce A.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
Appropriate instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse children requires distinguishing among individual needs related to culture, language, poverty, mobility, and exceptionalities. Presented are suggestions regarding prereferral, assessment, curriculum, parental involvement, and program coordination for Black, Hispanic, Asian, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedLeSourd, Sandra J. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1993
Reports on a study of cultural images of people in 5 nations by 24 10- to 13-year-old children of low socioeconomic backgrounds. Finds that 10-year olds focused on the thoughts and feelings of people whereas the 13-year olds included more knowledge abstracted to the country level. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Download full textUlanoff, Sharon – 1993
The Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes Center has identified seven projects in the southwestern United States and one in Massachusetts that exemplify the educational practices important in today's ethnolinguistically diverse classrooms. Preliminary findings indicate that each of these programs contains several critical elements…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
Fitzgerald, Jane; Miramontes, Ofelia – Academic Therapy, 1987
The article clarifies the role of monolingual English specialists in the pre-referral process for culturally and linguistically different students. To help specialists assess language and learning disorders and plan intervention, a question-and-answer format which describes first language proficiency and relates it to learning English as a second…
Descriptors: Consultants, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Goodfellow, Paula; And Others – 1984
This study compares (1) the English language use of limited-English-speaking foreign and native English-speaking college students in doing chemistry laboratory work, writing lab reports, and taking lecture notes; (2) the relationship of the language use to performance; and (3) the relationship of the foreign students' beliefs about their language…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Writing
Grossman, Herbert – 1984
This book presents the results of a study entitled "What Counselors, Educators, Psychologists and Others Should Know About the Hispanic Culture in Order to Work More Effectively with Hispanic Students and Their Parents" funded by the California Department of Education in 1982-83. Approximately 500 people (Hispanics and Non-Hispanics) from 19…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
Jenkins, Carol A.; Bainer, Deborah L. – 1990
In this discussion on instructional problems in multicultural higher education classrooms, it is argued that while educators recognize that equitable treatment for all students is their responsibility, they often do not know which attitudes, behaviors, expectations and teaching strategies may be misunderstood by ethnic and/or minority students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
Bailey, Tandy, Ed. – Crosscurrents, 1992
Articles on various aspects of second language teaching include: "Global Education Language Teaching Activities" (Kip A. Cates); "Classroom Management in Japanese Colleges and Universities: Some Practical Approaches" (Paul Wadden, Sean McGovern); "Control: An Independent Learning Model" (Don Maybin, Lynn…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
