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Alghail, Ali Abdullah Ali; Mahfoodh, Omer Hassan Ali – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
This study examines how international graduate students in a Malaysian public university perceive and overcome academic reading difficulties. The target population included all graduate students from Yemen, an Arab country, studying at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Data were collected using questionnaires, focus group interviews, and journal writing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Reading Difficulties
Chavoshan, Ida – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation study focused on a feature of emergent interactions in the L2 classroom called unanticipated student utterances (USUs), which is defined as utterances spoken by the student that the teacher has not anticipated as part of the discussion at hand. The purpose of the study was to demonstrate why USUs are significant in the L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
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Leal, Priscila – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This article investigates the potential benefits of using children's literature in adult second language (L2) classrooms. A short-term, intensive university course for English reading and writing was designed incorporating children's literature into the curriculum. The author describes the course and discusses how children's literature can be used…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Benefits
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Weger, Heather – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Pedagogical proponents of both communicative language teaching and the postmethod philosophy argue for the importance of considering learners' needs in classroom planning. This requires understanding learners' attitudes toward a variety of classroom realities. The present study reports on the attitudes of 131 adult, international learners of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Intensive Language Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kraut, Rachel; Wulff, Stefanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Seventy-eight native English speakers rated the foreign-accented speech (FAS) of 24 international students enrolled in an Intensive English programme at a public university in Texas on degree of accent, comprehensibility and communicative ability. Variables considered to potentially impact listeners' ratings were the sex of the speaker, the first…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Case Studies, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
Nabei, Toshiyo – University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This study investigated Japanese students' perceptions of grammar instruction in the United States. Subjects were six university students in an intensive English course focusing on reading and writing, but also including grammar instruction, and using communicative and interactive approaches. Data were drawn from two student questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Strategies
Zikopoulos, Marianthi, Ed.; Julian, Alfred C., Ed. – 1986
Results of the 1985-1986 census of foreign students in the United States are presented. In addition to an overview of foreign study in the United States and other countries, data are provided on: the number of students from regions and countries that sent the largest groups of foreign students to the United States; personal and academic…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Loheyde, Kristin; Kunz, Nancy – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the oral communication between international university students in an intensive English program (IEP) and office support staff at the IEP office. The study was based on audiotaped observations and interviews of students and office staff, along with questionnaires distributed to all 150 students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Boyan, Douglas R., Ed.; And Others – 1983
Results of the 1981-1982 census of foreign students in the United States are presented. In addition to an overview of foreign study in the United States and other countries, data are provided on students' nationality, academic characteristics, personal characteristics, distribution by state, two- and four-year institutions, public and private…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Boyan, Douglas R., Ed.; And Others – 1984
Results of the 1982-1983 census of foreign students in the United States are presented. In addition to an overview of foreign study in the United States and other countries, data are provided on students' nationality, academic characteristics, personal characteristics, distribution by state, distribution in two- and four-year institutions, and in…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Adams, Mary Ellen, Ed.; And Others – 1984
Results of the 1983-1984 census of foreign students in the United States are presented. In addition to an overview of foreign study in the United States and other countries, data are provided on students' nationality, academic characteristics, personal characteristics, distribution by state, distribution in two- and four-year institutions, and in…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Carrell, Patricia L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Utilizing a pre- and posttest research design, with an instructional intervention of good practices in notetaking, the notes taken by examinees during a computer-based listening comprehension test prior to and following the instructional intervention were examined for particular notetaking strategies. Questionnaires probed perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Pretests Posttests, Correlation, English (Second Language)
Magrath, Douglas – 1981
Middle Eastern students face cultural conflicts in adapting to the western value system. While feeling obligated to maintain their native culture they also need to feel comfortable with the culture of their target language. In attempting to identify with a new group, ESL students may sense a loss of membership in their native group. Culture stress…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Administrator Responsibility, Communication Problems, Cultural Traits