讲座时间：4月13日晚7：30
讲座教室：科技楼南109教室
主讲人：Martin Boyle
讲座题目："Sojourner Adjustment: Integrating Overseas Students into UK universities"
内容简介：While the difficulties that some Chinese students have integrating and performing academically at UK universities are certainly to do with problems of language acquisition, cultural adjustment and academic skills, the phenomenon of 'the sojourner' identified by Siu (1953) provides a fascinating insight into the psychological and sociological features underpinning these difficulties. I will explore how sojourner adjustment theory has been applied to international students and will outline and evaluate some of the ways in which UK universities have tried to create environments in which international students can be socialised and acculturated into UK university culture.
学者简介：
Martin Boyle (BA, MA, DipTEFL) is the Director of the International Foundation Programme at the University of Kent.
He joined the department in 2007 after having taught subject-specific and general EAP at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies for 12 years. He has run university foundation programmes in China, and has co-ordinated and taught on EAP and ESP courses for industry in Taiwan, Germany, Brazil, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
His academic and research interests are language teachers’ own language learning experiences and how they inform their understanding of the second language acquisition process, and contrastive rhetorical analysis, with a specific focus on academic styles across languages and cultures. He is particularly interested in the linguistic and cultural problems that East Asian students face when adapting to university study in the UK.
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