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Poyrazli, Senel, and Kamini Maraj Grahame. "Barriers to Adjustment: Needs of International Students within a Semi-Urban Campus Community." Journal of Instructional Psychology 34.1 (2007): 28-45. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This study focus on the transformation that most International go through when they come to the United States. The basic barriers that most students face such as environment, English language proficiency, academic life,psychological experiences and social life. the study gives some tips and suggestions for the International students who just started their academic life. how to communicate more and to participate more in the class.

Henderson, Paulette A. ""Is everybody getting it?": Sustained support for English as a second language students." About Campus 14.4 (2009): 8-15. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is about English as a Second Language (ESL), and the experiences of international students in understanding English in their first year in American universities. Both professors and students talk about their own experiences and how the professors can help them understand the materials that been taught in class. every international student is working twice compared to most American students.first they have to overcame the language barrier,and then they have to understand the material benign taught in class.

Easton, Phyllis, Vikki A Entwistle, and Brian Williams. "Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature." BMC Public Health. 10 (2010): 459-468. Web. 19 Nov 2010. This paper talks about the connectino between low health literacy and poor health. It hypothesizes that people with cognative difficulties and people who do not speak the dominent language of the country are more likely to have health literacy problems.

This paper talks about the connectino between low health literacy and poor health. It hypothesizes that people with cognative difficulties and people who do not speak the dominent language of the country are more likely to have health literacy problems.

Mohammed, Methal R. "Don't Give Me a Fish; Teach Me How to Fish: A Case Study of an International Adult Learner." Adult Learning 21.1/2 (2010): 15-18. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The article is about the experiences of graduate students who have some language difficulty and how that can be a huge barrier to overcome especially in graduate studies. talking about his own experiences in learning in a different language, and what of kind of methods he used to adapt with the new learning environment. He also give the reader a lot on information on how to adapt even faster with the the environment and the Academic life.

William Badke. "International students: information literacy or academic literacy?" Academic Exchange Quarterly, Dec 22, 2002. Web. This article looks at how international students may not actually be getting the education they may have thought they are bargaining for. He says yes, they receive an English education which may have been tougher to come by in their country, thereby becoming more literate, while in effect they do not actually gain any valuable academic literacy, comparable to what may have been available in their country of origin. He states that in effect these students are caught between an educational gap in which they face more language challenges than they do actual academic challenges, and as such spend most of their education just trying to get over the language barrier hump, while sacrificing academia knowledge they would have otherwise been gaining.

Sherry, Mark. "International students: a vulnerable student population." Higher Education 60.1 (2010), 33-46. This study is about International students at the University of Toledo, they represent 10% of the total number of students (16,000 students). the university made an online survey for international students, because the university wanted help them overcome those barriers and make them feel home. this study cover a lot of issues that student face everyday English language problems, financial and readjustment with the campus life and the whole academic life. it also gives us an idea about how the university helped them with those problem and guided them through the process.

Sherry, Mark, Thomas Peter and Wing Hong Chui. "International students: a vulnerable student population". Higher Education; Jul 2010, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p33-46, 14p. The article takes a study of students at University of Toledo right here in Ohio, examining the problems they face as well as how they are helped in overcoming them, from social to economic to language barriers.