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Keles, Ufuk – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to seek answers to how receiving his PhD at the University of Alabama influenced the author's ongoing academic discourse socialization as an international graduate student coming from Turkey. To that end, the author incorporates second language and academic discourse socialization theories with the concept of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, Socialization, English (Second Language)
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Wen XU – Language and Education, 2024
To date the research narrative about L2 identities has been dominated by studies on English language learning in the Anglosphere and very little existing empirical work situates the Global South as a point of departure to explore aspirations for learning languages other than English amongst international students and migrants. This article adopts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Non Western Civilization
Ivory D. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Literature on international students discusses the creation of programs to assist with adjustment to U.S. education, explores negative experiences on campus and in the surrounding community, and discusses in-classroom experiences for ethnic groups within the international student population. Within the literature, developmental education articles…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Foreign Students, Community Colleges, Student Experience
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Silvie Prevrátilová – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
While study-abroad students generally prefer destinations where the local language relates to their personal, academic, or professional pursuits, the Czech Republic ranks as the 25th most popular destination for U.S. study abroad, signalling an interest in exploring beyond traditional language choices. This study addresses the gap in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Wen XU – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Against the backdrop of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the number of educational migrants from the member states, particularly African international students, has dramatically increased over the past decade in China. Much of previous research on international student mobility (ISM) and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Entrepreneurship, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation
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Roger W. Anderson – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Despite their centrality to undergraduate teaching in U.S. universities, few studies focus on ITA's and their experiences within ITA training classes. Through a multiple case study of two In-Service ITA's (China, Taiwan) investments (Darvin & Norton, 2015) in one such class, it became clear how idiosyncratic are perception of these courses:…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Liu, Meng; Le Ha, Phan – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper draws on a small-scale qualitative study with international students enrolled in various English- and Chinese-medium instruction programs in Chinese universities. It seeks to explore these students' educational experiences and their perceptions of China and China's higher education. Our study provides ample evidence about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Global Approach, Language of Instruction
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Lee, Sheng-Hsun – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study explores the longitudinal pathway of social identification traveled by a US learner of Chinese, Tom. Focusing on the historical production of persons, I analyze interactional recordings, instructional artifacts, and participant interviews collected over three years of qualitative inquiry. The analysis articulates how Tom's narrative of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Chinese
Yawen Han; Juan Dong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The adoption of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has gained popularity in China's tertiary education as a result of globalization. International students in Chinese universities are celebrated as part of soft power projection to extend China's global impact. Informed by Piller and Cho's concept of "Neoliberalism as…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Dos Santos, Luis Miguel – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
This study aimed to understand the language learning strategies of L3 Chinese university students who were taking a year-long university exchange programme in one of the South Korean universities and who had learning experiences with both the Chinese and English languages. Based on the constructivist learning theory, this qualitative study sought…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Asians
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Ravichandran Ammigan; Adil Bentahar – TESOL Journal, 2024
Understanding the experiences and preferences of international students during their programs of study can be crucial for how institutions of higher education recruit, retain, and ensure the success of students in an increasingly competitive global market. While there is a well-established body of literature on the academic and living experiences…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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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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Zhang-Wu, Qianqian; Brisk, Maria Estela – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Although being able to meet the TOEFL requirement for college admission, Chinese international students often encounter linguistic challenges during their initial college experiences. Understanding such challenges set the foundation for implementing Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) in higher education. Although well studied in K-12…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Behnam Soltani; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article investigates second language socialization of three international students in a tertiary institute in New Zealand. To understand the experiences of international students, the article draws on the theoretical framework of the production of space to examine how the students experienced their new social space. The article uses multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Socialization, English (Second Language)
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Trifuljesko, Sonja; Choi, On Hee – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2022
To investigate how the process of peripheralisation usurps internationalisation experiences within the global higher education centres, this article draws on two separate case studies, one conducted in Finland and the other in the UK. In both contexts, Anglophone hegemony plays an important role, but in different manners. In the Finnish case,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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