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Bar Chart250Count200150Major educationcountryAustraliaNot_Australia100500moreinteractionfewer hoursof face tofaceteachingmore selfstudymore groupassignmentsothersMain differences between teachingmethods here and in your previous …Figure 6.3Judging from the responses to this question, we could say that the teachingmethods used in Australian schools, specifically in classroom interactions and faceto-faceteaching, are significantly different from those used in their overseascounterparts. While 27% of the international students felt that there was moreinteraction between lecturers and students at university, less than 10% of theAustralian students agreed. Similarly, while 44% of the Australian students felt thatthere were fewer hours of face-to-face teaching at university, less than 18% of theinternational students felt the same.6.1.4 Communication“Lack of common interest” and “not confident in English” are the main difficulties forinternational students in communicating with Australian local people.Question V.1. Due to the cultural and language differences, sometimes it is not easyto communicate with those students from different cultural backgrounds. What doyou think are the main difficulties in communicating?A. I am not confident in English languageB. Lack of common interestsC. I only like to communicate in my own languageD. Others, please indicate_____________________105
CrosstabWhat are the maindifficulties in crossculture communicatingTotalnot confidentlack of interestsonly like own languageothersCount% within Majoreducation countryCount% within Majoreducation countryCount% within Majoreducation countryCount% within Majoreducation countryCount% within Majoreducation countryMajor education countryAustralia Not_Australia Total23 214 2376.6% 34.9% 24.7%131 299 43037.9% 48.7% 44.8%89 20 10925.7% 3.3% 11.4%103 81 18429.8% 13.2% 19.2%346 614 960100.0% 100.0% 100.0%Pearson Chi-SquareLikelihood RatioN of Valid CasesChi-Square TestsAsymp. Sig.Value df (2-sided)207.207 a 3 .000218.995 3 .000960a. 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. Theminimum expected count is 39.29.Symmetric MeasuresNominal byNominalN of Valid CasesPhiCramer's VValue Approx. Sig..465 .000.465 .000960a. Not assuming the null hypothesis.b. Using the asymptotic standard error assuming the nullhypothesis.106
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Strategies and Approaches toTeachin
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Table of Contents0 EXECUTIVE SUMMAR
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0 Executive SummaryAustralian terti
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1 Project OutcomesThe outcomes of t
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The identification information sect
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questions aim to discover their ass
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3.2 Literature reviewCross-cultural
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4 Survey Data AnalysisThis section
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Total Count 380 632 1012Percentage
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2 Count 12 30 42Percentage 3.1% 4.7
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Table 13 shows that nearly all loca
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methods are good, while less than h
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Preferredfewerlectures andmore labs
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Maindifferencesbetweenteachingmetho
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Table 38 (Question IV.4) Sufficient
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understanding lectures?Table 42 (Qu
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confident Count 301 179 480Percenta
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Table 49 (Question VI.4) Caring abo
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Table 52 shows that more local stud
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Table 56 shows that both local and
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a chi-square test to determine whet
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Significance Level (α= 0.05)Hypoth
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presentations are unrelated (Indepe
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Hypotheses V.2H0: Student category
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Page 155 and 156: 11 ReferencesAsmar C. (1999), Schol
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