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Tomlin Gagen; Farahnaz Faez – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Thousands of education institutions worldwide rely on IELTS scores as criteria for accepting international students whose first language is not English. Individual studies have found varying degrees of strength of correlations and conflicting results between IELTS entry scores and subsequent academic success. These conflicting results were…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Scores, Correlation, Higher Education
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Bronwen Dyson; Gaby Ramia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Universities in anglophone countries responded to soaring numbers of non-traditional enrolments by expanding student support services. They have done so without being able to guarantee that international students will develop in their English language during a university degree (Humphreys, 2022, The need for English language development in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Universities, Nontraditional Students
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Li, Bingqing; Jiang, Weiqi; Chakma, Urmee – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This study is a critical-autoethnographic exploration of the intellectual trajectories of three international doctoral scholars in an Australian research-intensive university in terms of the development of their academic identities. It looks at the various institutional and discursive forces that influence their academic adjustments and how they…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar; Kaur, Amrita – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
While China has emerged as a leading host country for international students, it reinforces its determination to build a global knowledge system by integrating Chinese and Western epistemological traditions in teaching and learning to promote epistemic justice. The study aims to explore international students' challenges to current approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Foreign Students
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Liardét, Cassi L.; Thompson, Luke – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Writing a doctoral thesis "with" publications or "by" publication (TBP) has become an increasingly popular choice for PhD candidates seeking a competitive edge in the post-doctoral job market. However, many candidates continue to write traditional chapter monographs. While research into the TBP has steadily grown over the past…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations
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Heron, Marion – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
This article explores pedagogic practices, in particular, material artefacts, which support participation and structure the interaction of international students in seminar discussions. Using both a fine-grained analysis of the artefact in interaction as well as student perspectives on its affordances, the findings reveal how material artefacts in…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Students, Seminars, Group Discussion
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Mendoza, Carlos; Dervin, Fred; Layne, Heidi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Internationalization at home (IaH) policies in higher education institutions (HEIs) are rarely negotiated with and by students. Therefore, students' takes on such policies could be missed opportunities for HEIs. This qualitative study investigates international and local students' negotiations and meaning-making of integration and IaH as stated by…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Williamson, Kristie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
In Australia, international students who do not meet university set English language requirements can alternatively attend intensive courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Such courses are steeped in the traditions of communicative language teaching, often holding 'English only' classroom policies. This article draws on data from a larger…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Spiliotopoulos, Valia; Wallace, Amanda; Ilieva, Roumi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article discusses an innovation within one Canadian institution that focuses on linguistically responsive activities in an internationalized, Anglophone university. The study draws on recent research in applied linguistics that addresses language and content integration within disciplinary courses as an innovation. Drawing on Rogers' (1995)…
Descriptors: International Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Holbrook, Allyson; Burke, Rachel; Fairbairn, Hedy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Overseas students who have learned English as a second or foreign language (L2) form a prominent subgroup of research students in Australian universities. However, there is a paucity of research exploring the linguistic experiences of this population in connection with thesis examination and in comparison with first language users of English (L1).…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Ma, Lai Ping Florence – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Research writing is an important part of doctoral study. Previous studies suggest that students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) may experience difficulties in writing a thesis in English. This study investigated the nature of the writing challenges experienced by EAL doctoral students. Drawing on data collected from individual…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Difficulty Level, English for Academic Purposes, Student Attitudes
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Kim, Mira – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article sets out to introduce a Personalised Autonomous (PA) model as a holistic and sustainable model to address the issue of international students' English Language Proficiency (ELP) in Australian higher education. This model was embedded in a credit-bearing course entitled Personalised English Language Enhancement (PELE). Both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language)
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Okuda, Tomoyo – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
One of the institutional challenges of taking in large numbers of international graduate students is supporting their academic literacy skills. To accommodate a large population of international students, Japanese universities offer various services to support their academic studies and life-related issues, such as hiring international student…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Language, Graduate Students, Universities
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Farley, Alan; Yang, Helen Hong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This is the first study that examines the comparative validity of the Chinese National College Entrance Exam (known as Gaokao) to a Western end-of-secondary-school performance measure, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), as admission criteria to an Australian undergraduate degree programme. The study offers a strong warning about using just…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations
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Heng, Tang T. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This article contests the narrative of Chinese international students (internationals for short) as passive and problematic to reveal the complexity and fluidity of their experiences. Simultaneously, it troubles the overly linear approach of stage theory in understanding internationals' adjustment. Following nine first- and nine second-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Experience, College Students
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