Enhancing International Students’ English Proficiency and Cultural Competence in Academic Settings: A Handbook for Teachers

<p>More than one million international students have enrolled in U.S. undergraduate and graduate programs in 2015/16. The majority of these students come from non-English speaking countries with totally different language and cultural backgrounds. Although most of these international students have experienced studying English in their own countries, they may encounter the lack of communicative competence in the US. This lack of communicative competence will affect their social and academic life. The purpose of this field project is to increase international students’ communicative competence through boosting their cultural competence which is one of the main categories of communicative competence. This field project explores research in the theory multiple intelligences, the theory of communicative competence, the use of internet and technology, the acculturation and adaptation process, and the use of authentic material. This project tries to incorporate multiple intelligence and technology in other to teach English in a way that international students can increase their cultural competence. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International and Multicultural Education (IME)

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• tavakkoli, mahsa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Sedique Popal

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/489

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1515