Feedback cultures, histories and literacies: international postgraduate students’ experiences

Attracting International Postgraduate Students: The Pulling Factors

A university has to carry out various marketing strategies and efforts to recruit international students as many as possible in order to fulfil one of the criteria for a world–class university status. However, to attract quality candidates with the desirable profile is becoming increasingly difficult especially when the university has to compete internationally and nationally with the existing ...

Honours and Postgraduate Students

Conceiving Digital Literacies in Schools - Norwegian Experiences

As a frame of reference I will discuss the present situation in Norway where new national curriculum states that digital literacy is as important as reading, writing and numeracy. This raises many issues on knowledge creation and the way we think about schooling. The paper presents a conceptual discussion about digital literacy and its historical developments. In addition some data will be pres...

the effect of audio-taped feedback and conferencing on efl students’ writing ability

: بازخورد یکی از جنبه ها ی ضروری هر دوره ی آموزشی نگارشی – زبانی انگلیسی می باشد که به زبان آموزان مهارت های مورد نیاز جهت بهبود توانایی نگارشی را می آموزد. این تحقیق، با استفاده از طرح پیش آزمون، پس آزمون، و پسا آزمون ، سعی دارد تا تأ?یر نوع بازخورد مدرس در کمک به زبان آموزان جهت بازنویسی نوشته هایشان رابررسی کند ، و آیا اینکه رابطه ای بین نوع بازخورد مدرس و توانایی زبان آموزان در تصحیح غلط ها...

Exploring the experiences and coping strategies of international medical students

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the challenges that international medical students face and there is a dearth of information on the behavioural strategies these students adopt to successfully progress through their academic program in the face of substantial difficulties of language barrier, curriculum overload, financial constraints and assessment tasks that require high proficiency in c...