A study examined the impact of TV viewing motivations on 126 Asian students' psychological and sociocultural adjustment. Subjects were enrolled in a midsize university in the New England area. TV viewing motivation was measured by A. M. Rubin's TV Viewing Motivations Scale. Psychological adjustment was measured by W. Zung's Self Rating Depression…

The Department of Communication and the English Language Institute at Wayne State University in Detroit are one year into an experimental project in intercultural communication instruction that brings international students and metro-Detroit undergraduates into a shared classroom. The Detroit project design was partly funded by the Ford Foundation…

Staff shortages and high service ideals collided when the Iowa State University Parks Library recognized its need to find an alternative to the human-conducted tour for various groups of library users, including hundreds of non-native speakers of English who arrived at the school to enter a degree program. An audiocassette taped tour was developed…

This guide provides ideas and suggestions that might assist in the design and implementation of orientation programs for new foreign students at U.S. universities. An introduction discusses the various constraints which hinder the effectiveness of foreign student orientation programs and ways for overcoming those constraints. The second part…

A doctoral student's interest in self-culture connections led her to observe an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing class focused on autobiography and read all the students' papers. Autobiographical writing not only gives ESL students a chance to write about what matters to them, but the teacher can capitalize on students' cultural…

It has been suggested that the problems of foreign students are typically different from and of greater concern than are the problems of American students in higher education settings. Foreign students who must adjust to massive environmental, sociological, and psychological change may be afflicted by what amounts to an emerging disorder of life.…

Four American physics professors involved in the American Association of Physics Teachers' Committee on International Education in Physics outline the problems of deserving Asian physics students who seek graduate education in the United States. Suggestions are made for informing the prospective students about American schools and for designing…

This comprehensive bibliography lists 135 journal articles, books, conference papers, and documents on library use and library instruction for non-English speaking users. (MES)

Evaluations of educational qualifications for the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and 31 foreign countries are presented. Information is provided on criteria for evaluating educational qualifications and evaluation certificates and other services provided by the Centre for Evaluation of Educational Qualifications. Evaluations for each country…

Data on foreign student enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools are given for Manitoba, all other provinces, and Canada as a whole. Two tables and five computer-generated graphs present information by province or region on the number of foreign students (students holding valid student visas), percentage of foreign…

Thirteen "alumni" from thirteen different countries, who spent the academic year 1965-66 in a foreign country under a Fulbright fellowship, comment on the impact of the experience on their lives and careers. (JT)