Academic And Non-academic Difficulties: Perceptions of Graduate Non-English Speaking Background Students
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Ed Burke
Language & Literacy Education, Queensland University of Technology
Australia
<e.burke@qut.edu.au>
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Claire Wyatt-Smith
Language & Cultural Studies, Griffith University, Australia
<csmith@ed-hydra.edn.gu.edu.au>
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Abstract
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This paper reports a study of the academic and non-
academic demands as perceived by a group of Australian non-
native English speaking students in the first semester of the
postgraduate studies. It draws on relevant research and
relates this to the participants' responses to a written
questionnaire and follow up face-to-face interviews which
captured insider perspectives about academic difficulties:
the use of L1; the match between lecturers' teaching styles
and students' preferred learning styles; listening, speaking,
reading and writing; library and other resource usage as well
as other non-academic demands.
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Keywords: ESL, graduate education, Australia
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