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Young, Barbara N.; Snead, Donald – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Enrollment of Saudi Arabian International students' in United States institutions of higher learning has increased substantially over the years since King Abdullah initially launched the Saudi scholarship program in 2005 that was renewed in 2010 and funded an outward flow of Saudi student, including females, to universities worldwide. A commitment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Experience
Cruz, Selwyn A.; Pariña, Jose Cristina M. – Online Submission, 2017
Stemming from issue of migration for education, the study explored the language learning experience of Korean university students who come to the Philippines for education. Specifically, it documented the changes in the students' implicit and explicit knowledge that occurred in the preactional until the actional phase of their learning journey in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Knowledge Level, Context Effect
Park, John Jongho; Chuang, Yu-Chuan; Hald, Eric S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
This qualitative study involves tracking the process by which Asian STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) graduate students encounter graduate studies as they build professional identities. We derived data from interviews and observations of 27 Asian international STEM graduate students at various stages of their graduate careers at a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, STEM Education, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
McMahon, Patrick – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2018
The aim of this study was firstly to describe the experiences of international students living and studying in a UK university, to understand and explain their responses to those experiences and to make recommendations to stakeholders in the light of the findings. The research found that international students' two biggest concerns are their…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Students, College Students, Foreign Countries
Hiratsuka, Hiroyoshi – Journal of International Students, 2016
In 2011, Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) started a government-funded degree program (taught in English) to accept international students with limited or no Japanese language proficiency. However, the students faced obstacles in accessing all of the university resources provided. In this article, I investigated Japanese language as an organizational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Japanese, Language Proficiency
Marom, Lilach – Canadian Journal of Education, 2017
In this article I examine the structural barriers in the recertication trajectory of internationally educated teachers (IETs) in British Columbia (BC). By applying the Bourdieuian concept of field, I extend from IETs' experiences in the recertification process to institutional and political factors that affect these experiences. I demonstrate how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Teacher Certification, Institutional Characteristics
Yanagi, Miho; Baker, Amanda A. – TESOL Journal, 2016
Due to ever-increasing demands to acquire effective communicative abilities in the English language, increasing numbers of international students choose to study in Western tertiary institutions; however, they frequently encounter difficulties in performing satisfactorily in English. This study aims to identify specific challenges that Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Language Proficiency
Montgomery, Kerrie A. – Journal of International Students, 2017
The Chinese undergraduate student population currently represents 12.8% of all international students enrolled in the United States (Institute for International Education, 2015a). In an effort to understand the experiences of this population in their first year of college in the United States, a phenomenological study was conducted using a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Phenomenology
Taylor, Georgia; Ali, Nadia – Education Sciences, 2017
There is a considerable amount of research investigating students' transition from college to university but it is important this focus is directed specifically towards the transition of international students, as the difficulties they face are profound. The literature surrounding international students seems to lack an in-depth understanding of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Aiwekhoe, Frederick – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Despite the educational advancements as the world becomes more integrated, the problem of disparity in assessment of academic value still lingers with the criteria for validating foreign students' credentials. This can leave these students unable to further their education at different universities or even different departments within the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Credentials, Program Validation, Qualitative Research
Ahn, Tae youn – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Language exchange refers to a learning partnership between two learners with different native languages who collaborate to help each other improve their proficiency in the other's language. The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which language-exchange participants activate learner agency to construct opportunities for learning in…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Language Proficiency, Interpersonal Communication, Interviews
Kang, Jihea – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
The author uses a life-historical counter-storytelling approach to examine a Korean female pre-service teacher's experiences in a U.S. teacher preparation program. The participant encountered challenges due to her perceived language proficiency and communication and participation style in a U.S. higher educational context. Further, the author…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Experience
Xu, Qi; Peng, Hongying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article reports on an exploratory study investigating mobile-assisted oral feedback in teaching Chinese as a second language (CSL). It is aimed at exploring the characteristics of mobile-assisted feedback on oral production with the smartphone social communication app WeChat as a case in point and examining learners' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Chinese, Second Language Learning
Lyken-Segosebe, D. E. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
International graduate students meet TOEFL, GPA, and other admissions criteria to gain entry into US colleges and universities. During their stay in the USA, they provide educational and economic contributions for their host country. In contrast to their educational and economic potential, international students often demonstrate poor academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Stress Variables, Student Adjustment
Yu, Baohua; Wright, Ewan – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
Internationalisation has been actively pursued by Hong Kong's universities. Recent years have witnessed quantitative growth in non-local students. To ensure a qualitative success of internationalisation, it is crucial that universities cater for students with diverse academic backgrounds. This research explored challenges to academic adaptation.…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Adjustment, College Students, Universities