Virginia Gonzalez

Second Language Learning and Cultural Adaptation Processes in Graduate International Students in U.S. Universities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on major factors affecting international graduate students' successful cultural adaptation leading into higher levels of academic English language proficiency and academic achievement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780761827900
• ISBN-10: 0761827900
• Artikelnr.: 21428206

Autorenporträt

Virginia Gonzalez is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) Program in the College of Education at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Gonzalez holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published extensively in the ESL and bilingual education areas.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Adaptation of International Graduate Students to the American
College Culture: An Introduction
Chapter 5 Cultural and Social Adaptation of International Graduate Students
Chapter 6 Adapting to the Use of English-as-a-Second-Language in an
Academic Environment
Chapter 7 Affective Factors Influencing Learning and Academic Performance
and Cultural Adaptation in Graduate International Students
Chapter 8 Effect of Personality and Identity Factors on the Adaptation
Process of International Graduate Students to the American College Culture
Chapter 9 Tables
Chapter 10 Epilogue
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 About the Author