Supervising Post-Graduates from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds

by Ryan, Yoni; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun

• ISBN13: 9780335203710
• ISBN10: 033520371X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Many universities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have come to rely heavily on the fees received from postgraduate research students who come from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). These students must make huge adaptations: to another language, an alien culture, a different tradition of learning. They may suffer acute loneliness, confusion about cultural norms in the host country and, in consequence, their study may suffer.

Author Biography

Yoni Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in the Teaching and Learning Support Services Unit at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She works in staff development for flexible delivery, open learning and new uses of educational technology; and has conducted and facilitated numerous workshops on enhancing the quality of postgraduate supervision.

Ortun Zuber-Skerritt has published widely and conducted workshops in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Australia on action learning for organizational development, enhancing the quality of postgraduate supervision, research skills development, and departmental development processes. She is Adjunct Professor both in the Faculty of Education at Griffith University and in the Institute for Workplace Research, Learning and Development at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(12)
1 Supervising Non-English Speaking Background Students in the Globalized University	3	(10)
Yoni Ryan and Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Part 1 The NESB Student: What's the Difference?	13	(48)
2 'Once I couldn't even spell "PhD student", but now I are one!': Personal Experiences of an NESB Student	15	(10)
Yuriko Nagata
3 'You learn round and I learn square': Mei's Story	25	(15)
Tania Aspland
4 Supervising Iranian Students: A Case Study	40	(8)
Elizabeth Sandeman-Gay
5 NESB Postgraduate Students at a New University: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose	48	(13)
John Geake and Christine Maingard
Part 2 Examining the Issues	61	(30)
6 Supervision and the Overseas Student	63	(12)
Pam Denicolo and Maureen Pope
7 The Law, Policies and Ethics: Supervising Postgraduate NESB Students in an Era of Internationalization	75	(16)
Helen Stacy
Part 3 Establishing Some Principles for Effective Supervision	91	(40)
8 Responsibilities and Limits in the Supervision of NESB Research Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities	93	(8)
Nick Knight
9 Supervision of NESB Postgraduate Students in Science-based Disciplines	101	(9)
Alan Frost
10 Avoiding Potential Pitfalls in the Supervision of NESS Students	110	(9)
Pat Cryer and Eunice Okorocha
11 'Third Places' and Teaching English for Research Purposes	119	(12)
Mary Farquhar
Part 4 Practical Responses	131	(44)
12 Information Technology and the NESB Research Student	133	(13)
Allan Ellis and Renata Phelps
13 Supervising NESB Students from Confucian Educational Cultures	146	(11)
Doug Smith
14 Encouraging Student-directed Research and Critical Thinking in NESB Students	157	(10)
Christine Susan Bruce and Gerald Humphrey Brameld
15 Thesis Planning and Writing: A Structured Approach	167	(8)
Jim Sillitoe and Glenda Crosling
References	175	(10)
Index	185	(10)
The Society for Research into Higher Education	195