logging in or signing up The Academic Problems Faced by International Stude sueswift Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 311 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 12, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Academic Problems Faced by International Students: The Academic Problems Faced by International StudentsSome premises…: Some premises… Cultures will lie on a continuum between individualist --------------- collectivist low power high power distance --------------- distance Education systems will lie on a continuum between analytical -------------- reproductiveRelationships with lecturers: Relationships with lecturers Names and level of formality Unwillingness to contradict or discuss lecturers’ ideas Unwillingness to ask questions Regurgitation of lecturer’s ideas Expecting lecturer to be a parental figure Expecting constant availability out of class Presents Listening to lectures..: Listening to lectures.. Linguistic problems - features of spoken English eg anacoluthon, ellipsis, informal language - features of connected speech – eg elisision, catenation - recognising markers - recognising main points/examples/asides etcSeminar participation: Seminar participation Willingness to give opinions, agree, disagree, raise other points Belief in the validity of own opinions Forced or voluntaryReading…: Reading… Reproductive systems : learn the book Analytical systems : skim and select information from a wide variety of sources depending on aims Writing…: Writing… Genre conventions – organisation; development of ideas and signalling; register Understanding of writing as process Use of other people’s ideas Solutions??: Solutions?? Pre-sessional courses Lecturers need to be aware of these problems and… To be explicit about their expectationsSlide9: This presentation is part of the Delta Module One on-line course run by Business Talk Milan. If you would like to find out more about our on-line and face-to-face training courses for the Cambridge ESOL Delta Modules, please contact us via our website : www.business-talk.it You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
The Academic Problems Faced by International Stude sueswift Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 311 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 12, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Academic Problems Faced by International Students: The Academic Problems Faced by International StudentsSome premises…: Some premises… Cultures will lie on a continuum between individualist --------------- collectivist low power high power distance --------------- distance Education systems will lie on a continuum between analytical -------------- reproductiveRelationships with lecturers: Relationships with lecturers Names and level of formality Unwillingness to contradict or discuss lecturers’ ideas Unwillingness to ask questions Regurgitation of lecturer’s ideas Expecting lecturer to be a parental figure Expecting constant availability out of class Presents Listening to lectures..: Listening to lectures.. Linguistic problems - features of spoken English eg anacoluthon, ellipsis, informal language - features of connected speech – eg elisision, catenation - recognising markers - recognising main points/examples/asides etcSeminar participation: Seminar participation Willingness to give opinions, agree, disagree, raise other points Belief in the validity of own opinions Forced or voluntaryReading…: Reading… Reproductive systems : learn the book Analytical systems : skim and select information from a wide variety of sources depending on aims Writing…: Writing… Genre conventions – organisation; development of ideas and signalling; register Understanding of writing as process Use of other people’s ideas Solutions??: Solutions?? Pre-sessional courses Lecturers need to be aware of these problems and… To be explicit about their expectationsSlide9: This presentation is part of the Delta Module One on-line course run by Business Talk Milan. If you would like to find out more about our on-line and face-to-face training courses for the Cambridge ESOL Delta Modules, please contact us via our website : www.business-talk.it