Teaching Assistants Get Increased Training; Problems Arise in Foreign-Student Programs: Foreign Student Programs.

Heller, Scott

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Publication Date: 1986

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Teaching Assistants Get Increased Training; Problems Arise in Foreign-Student Programs: Foreign Student Programs.

Heller, Scott

Chronicle of Higher Education, v33 n9 p9,12-13 Oct 29 1986

Problems in the use of foreign graduate students as teaching assistants include cumbersome language proficiency testing, limited English proficiency, internal struggles in training programs, and rapidly increasing foreign graduate student enrollments. (MSE)

Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Program Administration, Teaching Assistants

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Language: English

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