Jeffra Flaitz,Leslie Kosel Eckstein,Kimberly S. Kalaydjian,Ariadne Miranda,Deborah A. Mitchell: Understanding Your International Students : An Educational, Cultural, and Linguistic Guide

Understanding Your International Students : An Educational, Cultural, and Linguistic Guide


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Understanding Your International Students surveys the school cultures of the many countries whose students top the international student enrollment lists in the U.S. educational institutions. No other volume so comprehensively addresses the educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the international students who are studying in English-speaking countries.Understanding Your International Students is an excellent resource for all schools--it's designed to sensitize users to the myriad differences that exist among schools and students around the world, to pique interest in deeper cultural exploration, and to provide encouragement and support for effective cross-cultural problem-solving. For each country profiled, the following information is provided: *a statistical profile*a deep culture summary*a table providing information related to school calendars, curricula, exams, grades, homework, and classroom set-up*a section on educational policy, teaching style, learning style, instructional setting, after-school activities, discipline and class management, teacher-student and student-student relationships, non-verbal behavior, images, forms of address, dress, polite/impolite topics and behaviors, and gift-givingproblem/solution scenarios that address challenges specific to the classroom and the student population described.Information about five additional countries is available on our website: www.press.umich.edu/esl/uyis/.

Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of his life is changed for ever. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which will lead to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is both a witness and participant in a drama that will echo down the century. Sixty-five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies in a Understanding Your International Students : An Educational, Cultural, and Linguistic Guide free epub London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. And with them, the consequences of the brutal fate of the Romanovs which has hung like a shroud over every aspect of their marriage...


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Author: Jeffra Flaitz,Leslie Kosel Eckstein,Kimberly S. Kalaydjian,Ariadne Miranda,Deborah A. Mitchell
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Published Date: 04 Feb 2003
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Publication Country: Ann Arbor, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780472088669
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