This paper examines challenges and supports experienced by internationally educated immigrants who participated as adult students in an Initial Teacher Education Bachelor of Education degree program in Ontario as part of their strategy to begin new careers as teachers. The narrative of one participant, a Chinese-educated meteorologist and…

This paper reports on a study designed to investigate (a) whether peer review is an effective pedagogical activity with adult Chinese students in the teaching of second language (L2) academic writing and (b) how factors such as perceptions of the influence of peer reviewers' L2 proficiency, previous experience with peer review, feedback…

International undergraduate students attending U.S. colleges completed a common ?hassles? assessment, the Inventory of College Students? Recent Life Experiences (ICSRLE). Previous structure and validation studies with this measure have been limited to North American students. Using exploratory and confirmatory analyses, a distinct structure of 6…

This article explores the experiences and perspectives on citizenship in an international, global context of 30 Brazilian, Chinese, and Italian graduate students studying in the United States, with special emphasis on their understandings of the geographic reach of their personal and professional rights and responsibilities. International graduate…

This paper consists of two parts. Section I summarizes the author's experiences in Japan during 1971 when he served as a Visiting Consultant on Student Counseling Services to the U. S. Educational Commission, Japan. It was concluded that the need for the counseling service is high, student counseling roles must be firmly established, and the…

This pilot inquiry and study was designed to explore some of the adjustment experiences of the foreign students on the University of Rochester campus to provide information useful in orientation programming, foreign student advising, and foreign student counseling. Questionnaires were sent to 45 students and returned by 20 students who…

In a college with a high proportion of foreign students, a mental health counselor must be aware of the unique problems facing a person making a difficult cultural adjustment while trying to meet the academic and social standards of the college environment. (JD)

Using qualitative methodology, found that foreign students find language skills, academic issues, and social interaction the most difficult adjustment problems. (Author)

Focuses on career counseling for international students. This introduces a model of career counseling for international students. It is necessary to understand the career counseling process for international students and to emphasize the unique role of the counselor and others in this process. (Author/BEF)

The verbal and nonverbal strategies of rapport, their environments, and their consequences are identified. Interviews between two foreign student advisors and 16 foreign students (both native and non-native speakers of English) were videotaped, and playback sessions with students and advisors were audio-recorded. Rapport-building and…

The greatest single strength of an admissions program is carefully developed institutional policy on the admission of foreign students which has the wholehearted support of the top level of the administration. Only then can the admissions program maintain reasonably and realistically high standards. Standards of admission should be reassessed…

This article considers how well international students in the UK perform academically, seeking to identify factors which affect their ability to fulfil their potential. It provides a short survey of the literature and summarises the findings of a research project commissioned by UKCOSA: The Council for International Education. The research…

Among 199 South Asian international students in the United States, higher levels of depressive symptoms were predicted by higher perceived prejudice and lower self-reported competence in work, personal/social efficacy, and intracultural behaviors. Relationships among the predictors and depressive symptoms differed by gender. Implications for…

Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning. "Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education" offers a…