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Sim, Wonjin; Stahl, Jessica – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2022
International students' experiences of multicultural living-learning communities were explored using consensual qualitative research. Fifteen female international students attending a university in the mid-Atlantic region were interviewed in five focus groups. Participants reported that the benefits of multicultural living-learning communities…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Cultural Differences, Foreign Students, Student Experience
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Umansky, Ilana M.; Avelar, Janette D. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2023
In this position paper, we draw on a wide, but non-exhaustive, review of existing literature to argue that long term English learner (LTEL)-considered students are uniquely positioned to expose fissures in the English learner (EL) education system more broadly. Examining both the early educational contexts that lead to students' LTEL status, as…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, English Language Learners, Student Attitudes
Mayan, Omar Hasan – Online Submission, 2019
Focusing on the themes of culture and e-learning 2.0, this study provides a Grounded Theory exploration of the experience of Saudi Arabian students in Australia. The research was conducted because a growing number of Saudi Arabian students chose to pursue their studies abroad in countries with very different cultural and educational environments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Experience, Electronic Learning
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Malerba, Maria Luisa; Appel, Christine – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper reports on a PhD study about informal second language learning in online communities (Livemocha and Busuu). In these communities learners autonomously seek opportunities for telecollaboration with Native Speakers (NSs) in the absence of teachers and pedagogical tasks, and in an informal context. This paper focuses on learning and social…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning