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Download full textLi, Mingsheng – Journal of International Students, 2016
This study examines the acculturative challenges facing non-English speaking background (NESB) international doctoral students in the process of discipline enculturation. Twenty NESB doctoral students at three New Zealand universities from eleven countries participated in the semistructured interviews. The study has found that their transformative…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Acculturation, Mentors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Le, Anh T.; LaCost, Barbara Y.; Wismer, Michael – Journal of International Students, 2016
International female graduate students have to negotiate multiple aspects of their identities as non-native learners and women in a society with different gender norms than their home countries. However, their experiences have not been well researched within the scholarship on international students. In this study, using the phenomenological…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Females, Educational Experience, Self Concept
Kumi-Yeboah, Alex – Journal of International Students, 2014
This article examines factors that influence transformative learning experiences of international graduate students from Africa. In general, 84.8% of the participants experienced transformative learning while 15.2% reported no transformative experiences. For those who experienced transformative learning, 26.1% of the transformative experiences…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Reflection, Foreign Students
