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Hodges, Amy; Seawright, Leslie – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students' linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a…
Descriptors: Engineering, Work Environment, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
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Tatzl, Dietmar; Messnarz, Bernd – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
This article investigates the influence of English as the examination language on the solution of physics and science problems by non-native speakers in tertiary engineering education. For that purpose, a statistically significant total number of 96 students in four year groups from freshman to senior level participated in a testing experiment in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Sakurai, Yusuke – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
This paper explores Malaysian students' problems within their science and engineering tertiary courses in Japanese through their diary entries and semi-structured interviews. The study analyses how students implement management strategies to overcome their problems. Although many studies are available regarding students' academic activities in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interviews, Scientific Concepts, Engineering