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Moriah McCracken

The cultural differences between East and West, according to one artist - Quartz - 2 views

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  • Moriah McCracken on 14 Dec 15
     
    "The cultural differences between East and West, according to one artist"
micklethwait

Universities Try a Cultural Bridge to Lure Foreign Students - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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universities bridge students

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    Kathy's suggested reading on the growth of bridge programs.
Moriah McCracken

Special Issue: The Linguistically-Diverse Student - 2 views

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special issue multilingual writing instruction

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    Guest Editor's "Introduction," Ann Johns "Demystifying Disciplinary Writing: A Case Study in the Writing of Chemistry," Stoller, Jones, Costanza-Robinson, Robinson "Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students' Perceptions of Successful Classroom Practices in a UK Graduate Program," Sarah Rich "Familiarizing Postgraduate ESL Students with the Literature Review in a WAC/EAP Engineering Classroom," Gavin Melles "Teaching Academic Writing to International Students in an Interdisciplinary Writing Context: A Pedagogical Rough Guide," Kam & Meinema "
  • micklethwait on 30 Oct 14
     
    I found a lot of these address graduate students. The last one seems most relevant.
micklethwait

Kam and Meinema, Context - 1 views

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rough guide international writing

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  • Culturally Coined
  • Büker (2003, 46-48)
  • actual and assumed differences
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • processes and products
  • content knowledge
  • Biggs notes that research results indicate that the difficulties perceived by international students differ in extent from problems perceived by local students, and not in kind.
  • The ETOC, the Expert Centre on Language, Communication and Education
  • Developing additional (didactic) course elements (e.g. developing writing assignments). Making teaching aids (handouts, good practices, assignments) available (by means of an online writing center). Developing policies concerning the teaching of communicative skills, aimed at imbedding teaching communicative skills into curricula (Van Kruiningen, 2004).
  • micklethwait on 30 Oct 14
     
    This one looks most relevant to our goals out of the ones in this journal issue.
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