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Direct linkUlker, Nilufer – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2020
International students encounter challenges while transitioning into a new environment with unfamiliar academic and social expectations. The situation is especially complicated for international dual-diploma students, who complete certain parts of their undergraduate education in their home and host countries. Challenges faced in communication in…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Download full textAhlam Ali Salim Halali; Lilliati Ismail; Arshad Abd Samad; Abu Bakar Razali; Nooreen Noordin – Journal of International Students, 2023
Intellectual engagement is essential for international students' academic success. However, academic speaking challenges associated with communicative language anxiety and inadequate prior learning experience could impede students' academic communication abilities in foreign universities. Thus, students adopt academic speaking strategies to tackle…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Nematizadeh, Shahin – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
Willingness to communicate (WTC) has recently been researched as a dynamic variable, with some investigations viewing it as a complex dynamic system (CDS). One important property associated with CDS is the notion of attractor states, which are characterized by stable patterns of behavior. The present study employed an idiodynamic method to monitor…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency, Task Analysis
Jean-Francois, Emmanuel – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This study explored the perceptions of a US university campus climate by international students and analyzed strategies that they used to socially and academically integrate their campuses. The sample consisted of international students who have at least completed two years of their college education. Individual interviews and focus group were…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Self Determination, Student Personnel Workers
Hartshorn, K. James; Evans, Norman W.; Egbert, Jesse; Johnson, Amy – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
English-medium institutions of higher education host increasing numbers of English-as-a second-language (ESL) learners in the US. English language skill is vital to their progress. Previous research examined reading challenges and expectations faculty have for their first-year students within five popular majors for international students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Students, College Faculty
Park, Jaehan; Yang, Jaeseok; Hsieh, Yi Chin – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
With the growing prevalence of Web 2.0 technologies and use of online resources in their classrooms, language learners have increasing exposure to online texts. In this study we attempted to understand how university level second language (L2) readers construct meaning when reading online. We investigated L2 readers' information-seeking strategies…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Web 2.0 Technologies
Lee, Jia-Ying – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study compares the language learner and test-taking strategies used by Chinese-speaking graduate students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in an English multiple-choice format reading comprehension test. Thirty-six participants at a large mid-western university performed three tasks: A content knowledge vocabulary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language)
