A teaching practicum for foreign students who will become teaching assistants is described. Brief lectures, student oral presentations, instruction in the use of audiovisual aids, and videotaping of students are major course components. Course results included increased student self-confidence and a mechanism established for future learning.…

Discusses the problem of finding appropriate communication and grammar texts for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) business students. Notes that texts do exist; however, more needs to be done before English characteristics of business can be adequately presented to ESL students. Provides lists of available texts. (PD)

Educational demography and its economic and social implications in Switzerland are examined from four angles: the factors shaping variations in the numbers of grade 10 gymnasium pupils; foreign children in the education system; the economic and social aspects of public expenditure on education; and changes in the university student population.…

Questionnaires or interviews were completed by 120 Afghan and 125 Iranian students enrolled in American universities, concerning their academic, personal, and social problems. Data were analyzed according to nationality, sex, age, marital status, major, duration of stay in U.S., financial sponsorship, and undergraduate v graduate student status.…

The Pacific Northwest International/Intercultural Education Consortium was formed as a means for colleges, universities, and community organizations to assist one another in bringing global perspectives to their curricula, in expanding their overseas programs, in improving their services to foreign students, and in nurturing international…

The effects on students' vocational aspirations because of the ecological differences that exist between urban and rural areas in developing countries are discussed. The results of a study of secondary students showed rural students were inferior in their levels of vocational aspiration, found job information more difficult to get, etc.…

Several issues in college student mobility between Japan and other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are examined, including the role of organized regional mobility in various areas of the world, curriculum development to meet the needs of international students, and the need for more analysis of…

Drawing on the experience of a program that trained adult international students as teachers for U.S. urban classrooms, this article explores ways to empower these teacher candidates in classrooms in which they are in a minority and how their contributions can educate the dominant culture as the text or teacher cannot. (SLD)

Focuses on a phenomena emerging from examination of a corpus of language interview data, representing a type of institutional talk evaluating the English language ability of international students for the purposes of elective English-as-a-Second-Language course placement. This phenomenon is the students' self-deprecations of their own English…

Examines how three English-speaking advisers and their non-native English-speaking doctoral students used citations and related writing techniques to make new knowledge claims in science dissertation writing. Finds that academic advisers play an important role in helping the students, and finds no negative influence from the students' native…

Investigated the learning experiences of 23 Japanese students in a one-year academic exchange program in a Canadian university. Participants either wrote an opinion task or a summary task at the beginning of the program using preselected source texts. Analyses of interview data and comparisons of the original and revised texts indicate that…

Presents data on college enrollment numbers by racial/ethnic group (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Black, Hispanic American, White) and for foreign students by state, and proportions of each group enrolled, by institution. The data are from an annual federal survey of enrollment. (MSE)

Shows that audience recall of AIDS public service announcements (PSAs) is related to message appeal types, cultural identity, and gender. Finds that strong emotional appeals are better remembered than rational ones; U.S. viewers recalled more than international participants; and college women recalled more than college men in general, and…

This study compared graduates and nongraduates of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) using 28 student characteristics as variables. The findings indicate that the optimal predictors of GSLIS grade point average (GPA) and completion of the program are undergraduate GPA,…

Attempts to identify the master stigma, that characteristic of an individual that he believes to have the strongest negative effects on interactions with others, as perceived by students from four developing nations. Racial background was the master stigma only for the Nigerian students and being a foreigner was for the Iranian, Taiwanese, and…