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Amir Rouhshad; Catherine Flynn; Lena Turnbull; Bella Ross – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Little is known about what academics focus on when providing assessment feedback to international students for whom English is an additional language (EAL). This study examines written assessment feedback provided to 11 EAL-speaking international students throughout a two-year Master of Social Work programme and investigates their perspectives of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Feedback (Response), Foreign Students
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Casañ Pitarch, Ricardo; Wang, Lulu – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2022
Purpose: The objective of this research is to measure Chinese students' progress in gaining new vocabulary in Spanish at the B1 level after using the serious video game Guadalingo. Design/methodology/approach: A group of 30 Chinese students participated in an experiment, in which 16 of them played Guadalingo; the other 14 were used as the control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Game Based Learning
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Paola R. S. Eiras – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
It is often assumed that the simple presence of international students and ubiquitous use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) are the main agents of internationalisation of higher education (HE), whereby English equals international education and inbound student mobility equals increased internationalisation. While there are perceived…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
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Eleftheria Christou; Nathan Thomas; Jim McKinley – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The global expansion of English has raised a call for English-language teachers around the world to frame English as an international language (EIL). This is especially true in rapidly developing contexts such as China, where teachers are expected to prepare learners to engage effectively in intercultural interactions. As such, the present study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Banegas, Darío Luis – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Teachers' professional identity is multifaceted and fluctuating, and while it is formally developed during initial teacher preparation, it is influenced by experiences before and beyond teaching programmes. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which a module on language curriculum development may influence the professional…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Professional Identity, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Yongyan Zheng; Yixi Qiu – Language and Education, 2024
Informed by a combined framework of 'translanguaging' and 'epistemic injustice', this paper examines how a group of teachers and students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds negotiated their knowledge participation through translanguaging in an English medium instruction (EMI) degree program at a Chinese university. Data were…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Students
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Shirahata, Mai – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This paper examines the roles of different language ideologies--sets of common-sense beliefs about language and its speakers--in students' identity construction and negotiation in the context of internationalizing higher education. Along with the increasing diversity of students as English speakers, language ideologies have been critically…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, International Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jones, Martin K.; Zhang, Yin – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
For the past two decades, Chinese students have formed a substantial component of many business-related postgraduate degrees in UK Universities. However, there has been little research into what motivates Chinese students to choose one type of business degree over another. In this paper, we use student record data to analyze the choices made by…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Student Motivation, Decision Making
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Dang, Que Anh – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This paper contributes to the theoretical debate over a global upsurge in higher education (HE) regionalisms which pursue different region-building processes and create policy spaces beyond national boundaries. Focusing on the Nordic countries, the paper studies parallel processes of intra-Nordic and European HE and research cooperation. Although…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Xu, Jianwei; Peeters, Ann; Gernay, Maarten – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This paper explores the role of a series of intercultural dialogues deployed as an intercultural intervention in scaffolding the development of interculturality of Chinese international students and Belgian undergraduates. The data highlight the fundamentally dynamic dialogic nature and process of intercultural engagement whereby the individuals…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Dialogs (Language), Intervention, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Roohr, Katrina; Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita; Bochenek, Jennifer; Belur, Vinetha – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
The United States continues to be a top destination for international students pursuing an advanced degree. Some information about the characteristics of international students applying to graduate programs in the United States is available, but little is known about how these characteristics are related to test taker performance on graduate…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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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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Sitthirak, Chongrak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This article is based on the author's doctoral thesis on the dynamics of interpersonal relations in the onsite classroom. Drawing on positioning theory (Davies & Harre´, 1999; Harre´, 2015), Sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978; Lantolf & Thorne, 2007) and informed by the focus on interaction in Douglas Fir Group's seminal paper (Douglas…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Conflict Resolution, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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King, Rosemary; Blayney, Paul; Sweller, John – Accounting Education, 2021
This study offers evidence of the impact of language background on the performance of students enrolled in an accounting study unit. It aims to quantify the effects of language background on performance in essay questions, compared to calculation questions requiring an application of procedures. Marks were collected from 2850 students. The results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Accounting, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Clark, Tony; Yu, Guoxing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This case study explores the challenges that Master's students encounter when learning to write in academic English as part of a UK postgraduate course, after having achieved the required IELTS entry score. Interviews with six Chinese and Japanese learners at different stages of the Master's study revealed more sophisticated writing difficulties…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
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