The factors influencing the degree of separation or overlap in the neuronal networks responsible for the processing of first and second language are still subject to investigation. This longitudinal study investigates how increasing second language proficiency influences activation differences during lexico-semantic processing of first and second…

This study examines the influence of length of residence in the target language community and overall L2 proficiency on L2 pragmatic competence with a reference to L2 grammatical competence. Participants were 126 international students in the US with two academic levels of English proficiency from 17 countries, speaking 20 languages. A…

There has been fierce competition for a shrinking pool of high school graduates in the higher education market in Japan in recent years. Along came former Prime Minister Fukuda's plan for an intake of 300,000 international students by the year 2020. These have placed Japanese institutions of higher education under further pressure to sustain their…

"The Dawkins era is over," Commonwealth Education Minister Julie Bishop told a Perth audience in late July 2007. This turning point in Australian higher education is not being driven by a decisive legislative change; the rapid abandonment of the old in favour of the new that everyone has seen before. It is as much the accidental result…

Ever since the radical reforms of the Dawkins years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, change has been a constant for university administrators, as well as for university staff. In the earlier years, change was driven directly by Government, as witnessed by the huge expansion of student numbers, the introduction of tuition fees and the first real…

A survey of foreign student advisors (n=800) with a response rate of 485 or 61% was conducted in 1984 to provide the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) with data on the backgrounds of its members. Findings indicated that: (1) less than 50% were employed on a full-time basis; (2) over 94% held academic degrees; (3) there was…

This study investigates student personnel problem perceptions of international students and international student advisors on selected community college campuses in Texas. The International Student Problem Inventory (ISPI) was administered to 220 international students and 30 international student advisors. Percentages were utilized to identify…

The rapidly increasing number of foreign students in the U.S. has resulted in a myriad of problems for schools seeking students or those institutions faced with unprecedented numbers seeking admission who may be unaware of the responsibilities involved in admitting foreign students. (Author)

Discusses some of the things that an effective counselor with students of varied backgrounds needs to be sensitive to, such as different value systems, life-styles, family relationships, and responsibilities. (EKN)

Foreign students who seek an education in the United States for careers as scientists in their native countries face many difficulties. This article enumerates various remedies for their problems including: information sources, financial aid, transportation vouchers, and foreign advisers. (PG)

University of London's first foreign student adviser recounts her experiences in the development of programs for assisting foreign students in Britian. (HS)

The presence of international students on a campus enriches the collegiate experience of other students. International students bring with them a wealth of diverse ideas, challenging their classmates to see the world from a variety of perspectives. As a result, students enrolled in courses from art and literature, social sciences, math, or natural…

There are perhaps few arenas where the escalating reality of the global community is more significant than in the realm of higher education, where future generations prepare to live and work in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. For U.S. colleges and universities, this reality underscores the growing importance of building an…

This article provides a discourse analysis of problematic communication in office hour interactions between international teaching assistants and American college students. The goal of the article is to explicate what is termed here as "understanding uncertainty", something which has received little attention in existing studies. The data under…

Traditional models of educational outcomes relate academic achievement to university experiences controlling for background characteristics, like former levels of achievement. In these models, most of the variance in the outcome under consideration is explained not by experiences inside the university but by background characteristics, such as…