International Students - Strengthening a Critical Resource

Informationen zum Autor Maureen S. Andrade has extensive experience teaching ESL and TESOL courses. She is a former department chair and ESL program director at Brigham Young University Hawaii, and a former editor of the TESL Reporter. Her professional interests include teaching English for academic purposes, content-based language instruction, program assessment, and adjustment and retention issues for international students. Norman W. Evans is a faculty member in the Linguistics and English Language department at Brigham Young University. He has spent much of his career working with international students in a variety of capacities as an English language teacher, writing center coordinator, ESL program administrator, and TESOL teacher trainer. Klappentext U.S. institutions of higher education must increase their awareness of international student issues, and International Students: Strengthening a Critical Resource reviews related research and highlights creative solutions and programming for the successful support of international students. The book provides practical, hands-on, broadly applicable solutions to addressing international student issues. Additionally, it serves as a practical guide for identifying and adopting best practices for serving international students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The International Student Picture 2 Adjustment Issues 3 Keys to Persistence: International Students in Higher Education 4 Recruitment 5 Orientation 6 English Language Programs and Academic Support 7 Social Support 8 Intercultural Adjustment and Learning 9 Immigration and Legal Issues

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Andrade, Maureen Evans Andrade, Maureen S. Andrade, Norman Evans, Norman W. Evans
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2009
• EAN: 9781607091752
• ISBN: 978-1-60709-175-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: American Council on Education; American Council on Education
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Education, EDUCATION / Leadership, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, EDUCATION / Comparative, Organization & management of education, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational administration & organization, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher