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Download full textSucharat Rimkeeratikul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The research was conducted at a public university in Bangkok, utilizing the Personal Report on Intercultural Communication Apprehension (PRICA) to measure Intercultural Communication Apprehension (ICA). The study aimed to compare the ICA levels among three groups of students within the same university: bachelor's degree students majoring in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
Direct linkRachel Burke; Sally Baker; Tebeje Molla; Bonita Cabiles; Alison Fox – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The past decade has seen increased attention paid to the ethical complexities of educational research undertaken in sensitive or 'fragile' settings, where trauma, marginalisation and socio-political precarity are prevalent. Yet, despite increased awareness of micro-ethical issues encountered in the field, there is limited research that engages…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Researchers, Well Being, Educational Research
Anas Hajar; Ali Ait Si Mhamed; Ebenezer Yeboah Owusu – Language and Education, 2025
This article documents the reflections of six African second-year master's students on their international educational experiences in Kazakhstan with a special focus on their challenges, strategic learning efforts and identity development. It is guided by Norton's conceptualisation of investment in identity, language learning, and social change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Anas Hajar; Ali Ait Si Mhamed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores eight Kazakhstani postgraduate students' reflections of their international educational experiences in the UK after their immediate re-entry into Kazakhstan. Special focus was on their language identity development after their one-year stay in the UK. It was informed by Benson et al.'s ([2013]. "Second Language Identity in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chennamsetti, Prashanti – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
Transiting from a home country to a host country in pursuit of higher studies involves various psychological and sociocultural challenges. Accordingly, this phenomenological qualitative study explores the challenges faced by six Indian international graduate students in a US university. The study further integrates an interdisciplinary approach by…
Descriptors: Barriers, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Vander Tavares – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the number of international students growing rapidly within (international) higher education, more attention has been focused on the need to consider international students' experiences, particularly those from the global south, from more critical, ethical and qualitative perspectives. This paper examines how the lived experiences of three…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Native Speakers, Foreign Students, Multilingualism
Boonsuk, Yusop; Fang, Fan – Language and Education, 2023
Although the development of intercultural citizenship among university students has now been included as a key policy in international universities, pedagogical practices for promoting the awareness, understanding, and development of intercultural citizenship while studying abroad have reportedly been inadequate. To address this gap, this…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad
Tavares, Vander – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Interest in international student identity has grown considerably over the last few years. In the context of international education, the emphasis on identity and the individual student may also be seen as an emerging response to the tendency of discussing international students and their identity-related experiences in homogenising ways. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Self Concept, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
Neupane, Dhruba – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Research in international student success, satisfaction, and challenges seems still to be constructed around the colonial, imperial paradigm. Informed by deficit models of language, culture, and literacy teaching, such research portrays international students' challenges in terms of deficiency; discounts other languages, cultures, and literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
Sabbah-Taylor, Angela – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This article is an investigation into the characteristics of intercultural competence in a face-to-face tandem language learning context between English and Chinese postgraduate students. It examines idiomatic meaning exchanges through the adoption of a conversation analytical perspective. It is a contribution to the existing body of knowledge on…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Graduate Students
Campos, Joana; Pinto, Luisa Helena; Hippler, Thomas – Journal of International Students, 2022
This study examines the dimensionality of a new measure of international students' adjustment using a sample of 189 international students. Drawing on earlier conceptualizations of cross-cultural adjustment as a person-environment fit and a previous scale measuring adjustment from the expatriate literature, this study shows that this scale can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Jose Ignacio Priego-Quesada; Andresa M. C. Germano; Daniel Schmidt; Alberto Encarnacion-Martínez; Andressa L. Lemos; Carlos Sendra-Perez; Conrado T. Laett; Emmanuel S. da Rocha; Falk Zaumseil; Fran Oficial-Casado; Inaê de Oliveira; Inmaculada Aparicio-Aparicio; Jesús A. Escalona-Navarro; Joaquín Martín Marzano-Felisatti; Marina Gil-Calvo; Ignacio Catalá-Vilaplana; Niclas Masuch; Pedro Pérez-Soriano; Roberto Sanchis-Sanchis; Felipe P. Carpes – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Internationalization in higher education is essential, and although active learning methodologies are increasing and allow students to develop transversal skills, most still have a very local scope. In this context, the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) methodology is an interesting approach to benefit the students' development.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Biomechanics, International Education
Liao, Yifan; Liang, Jia – Journal of Research in Education, 2021
While foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been explored by researchers, little is known about such anxiety in the context of graduate education beyond courses or programs specifically for language acquisition. The current study addressed this gap by exploring FLA experienced by Chinese graduate students for whom English is a second language. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Asians
Moon, Chi Yun; Zhang, Shuai; Larke, Patricia J.; James, Marlon C. – Journal of International Students, 2020
This qualitative study explored the experiences of six Chinese and South Korean graduate students in the United States. Semistructured interviews and an interpretive phenomenological approach were used in which three major themes emerged: (a) academic challenges and acculturation, (b) academic support from host institute, and (c) cultural and…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Graduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Phenomenology
Karami, Amirreza; Bowles, Freddie A. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This pilot study is a mixed-methods sequential explanatory study that investigated the effects of watching text-relevant video segments supported by the Schematic Information-Processing (SIP) model of reading comprehension on reading comprehension of adult speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in terms of text familiarity and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
