Hi Helen
I was sitting here working on my doctoral lit review re international students when I saw your mail ! So bearing in mind John's recent encouragement re list use, I thought that for once I must reply ...
I'm currently reviewing two edited books that report on quite a few different qualitative case studies that I'm finding v.useful:
Internationalisation and the Student Voice (2010) edited by Elspeth Jones, and Teaching International Students: Improving Learning for All (2005) edited by Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll. Along with Catherine Montgomery (2010) Understanding the International Student Experience, I have found these helpful for the students' perspective. However, I do take your colleague's point that much of the lit tends to focus on the problems and practitioners' recommendations, rather than students' own reported coping strategies. So I would concur with her that much of what I'm saying about that in my thesis is coming from the data collection and analysis, that I'm then connecting back where possible to the other lit.
There are a number of recent study skills textbooks specifically aimed at international students, of course, e.g. Martin Davies (2011) and Martin Hyde (2012) - all male researchers in this field must be called Martin fortunately - but I guess that doesn't address your colleague's issue. I'd be happy to liaise with her/him directly if that's of interest.
Best wishes
Martin
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
Effective Learning Advisor
Bradford School of Management
Dear all,
I received this email from my colleague and wondered if anyone had any thoughts or had seen any relevant literature that might help?
I’ve located any number of journal articles about international students’ experiences and difficulties studying in western universities and what universities should be doing to support them. I’m finding it harder to locate literature about what learning/coping/survival strategies they actually use to get by when they are thrown in the deep end. I’ve done a couple of interviews and I’m getting things about strategies such as appealing to conationals for help, appealing to tutors/lecturers, reading core texts in L1 and making notes in L1, using google translate…..I suppose it’s good as maybe there’s not so much out there….from your learning development angle have you got some tips for me??
Thanks
Helen
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