Teaching international students : improving learning for all / / edited by Jude Carroll and Janette Ryan.

• Superior document: Staff and educational development series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Carroll, Jude.; Ryan, Janette, 1956-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Staff and educational development series.
• Physical Description: xii, 155 p.

Table of Contents

'Canaries in the coalmine' : international students in western universities / Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll -- Maximising international students' 'cultural capital' / Janette Ryan and Susan Hellmundt -- Gathering cultural knowledge: useful or use with care? / Kam Louie -- Strategies for becoming more explicit / Jude Carroll -- 'Lightening the load' : teaching in English, learning in English / Jude Carroll -- Building intercultural competencies : implications for academic skills development / Patricia McLean and Laurie Ransom -- Writing in the international classroom / Diane Schmitt -- Fostering intercultural learning through multicultural group work / Glauco deVita -- Multicultural groups for discipline-specific tasks : can a new approach be more effective? / Jude Carroll -- Improving teaching and learning practices for international students: -- Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment / Janette Ryan -- Postgraduate supervision / Janette Ryan -- Internationalisation of curriculum: an institutional approach / Graham Webb -- Internationalisation of the curriculum : teaching and learning / Betty Leask -- Postgraduate research : the benefits for institutions, supervisors, and students of working across and between cultures / James Sillitoe, Janis Webb and Christabel Ming Zhang -- East meets West : an unfolding liminal relationship between an international postgraduate and an American faculty member / Anne-Marie Read, Mengying Li -- Collaborating and co-learning : sharing the message on teaching -- International students within institutions / Lee Dunn and Jude Carroll -- The student experience : challenges and rewards / Janette Ryan.