Author : Audrey Zenner
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781793505125
Communication Skills for International Students is designed to help international students and English language learners successfully navigate their studies and communicate more effectively on and off campus.
Author : Audrey Zenner
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781793519733
Communication Skills for International Students is designed to help international students and English language learners successfully navigate their studies and communicate more effectively on and off campus. Students learn how to contribute in everyday scenarios and overcome potential communication challenges, with specific advice pertaining to academic interactions, social situations, leisure time, and job opportunities. This text is both unique and highly practical, as its content was assembled by an instructor with over 30 years of teaching international students and is based on international students' points of view, lived experiences, and suggestions. Opening chapters address common intercultural issues in communication, forms of communication, stereotypes, and cultural beliefs about learning. Additional chapters cover couple culture, email etiquette, networking, using technology, acculturation, and public speaking. Students learn about daily conversations and greetings, intercultural friendships, interviewing for jobs in the United States, improving their listening skills, and more. Communication Skills for International Students is an exceptional resource for courses in English as a second language (ESL), intercultural and international communications, mass communication, global and international studies, and international affairs. This text stands out as a useful tool for any international student interested in building their skill set and self-confidence with the English language and everyday communication.
Author : Li-Shih Huang
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761852808
Academic Communication Skills is designed to assist international graduate students as they create their own opportunities to expand their linguistic and strategic repertoires in academic English conversations. The needs of international graduate students are often different than those of others who have learned English as an additional language because they participate in academic conversations at advanced levels, encounter daily opportunities to discuss topics about which they have sophisticated knowledge, and are required to share their expertise with others (in their roles as teaching assistants or research assistants). As students progress in their academic studies, they increasingly understand that their fluency in academic oral communications plays an important role in their academic performance and future career options. While they recognize the importance, many voice frustrations, finding that speaking English is more difficult than writing and engaging in impromptu dialogues is more difficult than presenting prepared monologues. This book is an excellent resource for either classroom instruction or for self-study. It provides effective confidence-building strategies that speakers can try when participating in a range of different academic interactions. By guiding both students and instructors in examining common conversational challenges in academic environments, including many of the assumptions that frequently cause miscommunication, the book provides proven strategies for increased effectiveness and confidence in cross-cultural academic conversations.
Author : Tracey Bretag
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 9780074717073
Author : Darren LaScotte
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0472038567
Although traditional ESL/EFL textbooks have primarily introduced cultural topics at a knowledge level only, this textbook is designed to create meaningful opportunities for students to reflect on and practice intercultural skills in ways that are relatable in their daily lives and that can lead to a more satisfying US academic experience.
Author : Velliaris, Donna M.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1799828808
Registering for courses, securing financial aid, developing strong study skills, and mastering difficult course material are just a few of the wide variety of obstacles that college students must overcome on their path to graduation. Beyond inadequate academic preparation, first-generation college students may not be able to rely on family or friends for advice about higher education and thus face the additional burden of constructing a support network of mentors and advisors. Without suitable advice and counseling, these students may make decisions that adversely affect their circumstances—and thus, their education. Academic Language and Learning Support Services in Higher Education is an essential scholarly resource that examines the quality, organization, and administration of academic advisement and academic support systems for college and university students that connect them to the academic community and foster an appreciation of lifelong learning. Featuring a wide range of topics such as enrollment services, professional developments, and service learning, this text is ideal for academicians, academic advisers, mentors, curriculum designers, counsellors, administrators, higher education faculty, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students.
Author : Leo Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521369572
Author : Leo Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521369572
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
This research digest provides an overview of perspectives on communication skills for international students with English as an additional language (EAL). In addition, it proposes that the narrative surrounding this issue be shifted towards a focus on communication skills for all students in higher education. Initially, this analysis takes into account recurring public perceptions played out in the media where the English language competencies of EAL international students are presented as evidence of declining standards for communication skills in higher education more broadly. As higher education institutions increase their efforts to address the diverse range of communication skills of their students, the discourses that have dominated the distinctions between EAL international students and domestic students require re-framing. The times have changed and the discussion needs to move to more practical ideas which can address the complexities that often surround this issue. As such, this research digest suggests that a focus on developing and assessing the communication skills of all students will shift the institutional and external perceptions of the English language âproblemâ of EAL international students. This would enable a shift towards a broader agenda for the explicit development and assessment of communication skills as core business for higher education institutions, linked to educational success and enhancing graduate employability. In this paper the authors have used the term âcommunication skillsâ to refer to all aspects of communication including English Language Proficiency (ELP). [Author abstract]
Author : NIRA KUMAR
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8120344200
In today’s competitive and globalized world, communication has become an essential tool for everyone—be they students, academics or professionals. For technocrats and professionals, it becomes all the more necessary to acquire good communication skills as they have to communicate effectively with all their business and professional colleagues. This book on Communication Skills for Professionals, now in its Second Edition, strives to equip the students of engineering and technology with the requisite knowledge of effective communication. Divided into seven parts, this compact and student-friendly text discusses the various aspects of language such as vocabulary, grammar, verbs, phrasal verbs, voices, tenses, transformation and synthesis of sentences. Besides, the book gives a clear analysis of such skills as writing, reading, listening and public speaking. Finally, the book ends with means of effective communication, business communication, situational dialogues, public speaking skills, body language, and group discussions (GDs). The book which is suffused with plenty of examples and skillfully designed questions, is primarily intended as a textbook for the first-year engineering students of West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) for their core course on English Language and Communication. It is activity based and classroom tested and would be highly useful also for B.Tech./BE students across the country. WHAT’S NEW TO THIS EDITION : A new chapter on Business Communication New sections on Business Talk and Meetings Gives the characteristics of a good speaker Has more indepth study of listening and reading skills.
