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Challenges in BCOM: Student and Faculty Perceptions on English as an Additional Language
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McGann, Susie; Evans, Norman W.; McMurry, Benjamin L.; Sandholtz, Kurt – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2020
Business remains a popular major for international students in the United States. Little is known, however, about how these students fare in business communication (BCOM) classes. This qualitative study evaluates the challenges and needs of English as an additional language (EAL) students in BCOM courses at a private university in the United…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Culture and Problem Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Youth: Further Explorations.
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Jagers, Robert J. – Journal of Adolescence, 1996
Examined connections between culture and problem behaviors among 119 African American fifth and sixth graders. Results indicate that youth endorsed the Afrocultural orientation of spirituality and the Anglocultural orientation of effort optimism most highly. The Anglocultural orientation of person/object relations and the marginalized orientations…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Blacks, Children, Cultural Differences
Asian Students in North American Universities: Implications for Faculty and Staff.
Smith, Pheny Shang-Fen Zhou; Smith, Harold A. – 1989
When Asian students decide to study in North American colleges or universities, they expect to experience differences in the new environment, but the actual experiences often cause conflict at such basic levels of life and study that the students need assistance from Canadian or United States faculty or staff in order to achieve the original…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Environment, College Students, Counseling
Learning Needs and Adaptation Problems of Foreign Graduate Students.
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Huxur, Gulbahar; Mansfield, Earl; Nnazor, Reginald; Schuetze, Hans; Segawa, Megumi – CSSHE Professional File, 1996
This paper examines the learning needs and adaptation problems of foreign graduate students, and is based on the experiences of the five co-authors' graduate studies in Canada and the United States. It reviews the factors that contributed to their decision to study abroad, pre-sojourn expectations and arrival, their arrival in the host country,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
Advising South African Students/Background/Current Crisis. NAFSA Field Service Working Paper #2.
Emoungu, Winnie D. – 1985
Counselors working with students from South Africa need to be aware that the system of apartheid has created separate and unequal societies resulting in major differences in student educational, cultural, political and other backgrounds. In addition, counselors need to be aware of individual differences as well as differences in how people cope…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Apartheid, College Students, Cultural Differences
Diversity: Cultural and Educational Implications for Nursing Educators and the Nontraditional Student.
Hart, Sylvia; Conlon, Kathleen – 1977
In an attempt to help educators, particularly in nursing, understand the attitudes, feelings, and perspectives that students from other cultures bring to the teacher-learner situation, this paper identifies some generalized behavioral characteristics of different cultures and the educational problems that may arise when cultural differences are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, Black Culture, Chinese Culture