A 'roller coaster' experience? An exploration of postgraduate international students' perceptions of teaching, learning and assessment, integration with home students and building a campus community
John, Tomasz (2013) A 'roller coaster' experience? An exploration of postgraduate international students' perceptions of teaching, learning and assessment, integration with home students and building a campus community. In: Internationalisation and the Student Experience, 18 December 2013, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.
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The phenomenon of internationalisation of higher education brings both opportunities and challenges, as it introduces what can be radically different in terms of teaching, learning and assessment for both students and staff. However, the topic tends to be theorised in the literature at the organisational, strategic level and/or to focus on the growing numbers of 'international students'. There are still few comprehensive investigations of the interactions between international students, staff and home students.
As the majority of studies are neither supported by stories from the field, nor informed by accounts of the experience of practitioners dealing with students in various multicultural landscapes, there is a strong need for more in-depth case studies with examples of successes but also challenges international students face.
The aim of my PhD research is to contribute to the improvement of teaching, learning, assessment
and enhancement of the postgraduate international student experience overall. Various experiences of postgraduate international students with English as their L2, home students, lecturers and other staff involved in dealing with internationalization as well as my own practice will be explored in this inquiry.
In my presentation, I will show my work in progress and explore PG international students' views on what internationalization means to them, how it influences their learning as well as what challenges and successes they experience in regards to integration with home students and when building a campus community. The themes emerged from the four focus groups I carried out as part of my PhD research in an English university. The results will be supported by the analysis of the International
Student I-Barometer Survey from the same institution.
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