Perceptions and experiences of home students involved in welcoming and supporting direct entry 2nd year international students

Willis, Ian and Sedghi, Gita (2014) Perceptions and experiences of home students involved in welcoming and supporting direct entry 2nd year international students. Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 9 (1). pp. 2-17.

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Abstract

International student recruitment into Higher Education Institutions can take a variety of forms that require tailored responses. In this case, international students arrived as a pre-existing cohort and joined an established second year cohort in the Department of Chemistry. A Peer Assisted Learning programme was set up to support incoming students. The study explores the motivations and experiences of the home students who acted as Peer Assisted Learning leaders. The home students were motivated by empathetic concerns for new arrivals in the country as well as at the university. They acted beyond the requirements of the role and they took responsibility to initiate new activities. The experiences of home students is a relatively under researched aspect of internationalisation. The study is an example of a specific response to a particular internationalisation experience that enriches understanding of internationalisation by paying attention to the specifics of local context. We argue that nuanced responses to specific situations will become increasingly important. The actions and ideas may resonate with universities recruiting particular groups of international students.

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Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2015 08:27
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2016483

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