[EDLING:689] Re: Teacher vs Int'l Student perspectives question

[corwin mhlahlo]

Hie!
Can't say any specific studies come to mind but I shud think probs of some American spellings of words and pronunciation of certain words by Americans, playing the '"dating game"-the discourse of dating.
Hope have been of some help.

sicola at dolphin.upenn.edu wrote:
Hello all,

My colleague posed this question to me, and I was wondering if anyone out there
had some insights to point us in the right direction.

Thanks!
Laura

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(...)This was a project I
did last year in which I surveyed many of the Korean students here at the ELP -
and my colleague at Columbia's ALP did the same - trying to identify skills that
they realize they need HERE AND NOW that they didn't learn or practice enough in
their English classes at home. (...)
There is a certain amount of research, much anecdotal, about what profs see
as the problems of foreign students in US universities (matriculated students,
not IP-type students), all the research for the new TOEFL being a good example.
BUT, what I'm looking for is the opposite - any research on foreign student
input, ie what skills THEY identify that they lack, wish they had learned
before undertaking study in the US.

Any studies come to mind?
		
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