Mixing Them Up: Group Work with NESB Students

The development of a concurrent English - IT Programme for International Students

In 2001, the IT Department and the Centre for English and Other Languages at the Waikato Institute of Technology (CEOL) decided to merge two existing programmes, the Certificate in Advanced English, (CAE) and the Certificate in Computing and Information Technology, (CCIT) and run them together, so that Non English Speaking Background (NESB) students could study two six month certificate level p...

Non-English speaking background patients in a predominantly English-speaking region may be more likely to present with a dementia other than Alzheimer’s disease

Information on 54 patients was retrospectively collected to compare the presentation trends of cognitive disorders in those of non-English speaking background (NESB) to English speaking background (ESB) attending an Australian memory clinic that extensively uses fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) in the diagnosis of cognitive concerns. NESB patients were less likely to be...

Video Lecture Capture Technology Helps Students Study without Affecting Attendance in Large Microbiology Lecture Courses†

INTRODUCTION The use of video capture technology has gained popularity over the last decade as a common teaching tool in higher education for both brick-and-mortar students as well as distance learners (4). Many students find lecture capture a useful study tool (7), and recorded lectures allow traditional and nontraditional students alike to stay caught up with the lecture material in the face ...

Student initiation of academic interaction and language background: A comparison of NESB and ESB students in tutorials

Exploring Accounting Lecturer Perceptions of “Good” and “Poor” NESB Student Writing

This paper explores accounting lecturer perceptions of non-English speaking background (NESB) student writing. In particular, it identifies specific features of samples of writing characterised by the lecturers as “very good” and those characterised as “poor.” The paper reports the findings of an exploratory study in which three highly experienced accounting lecturers evaluated a small sample o...