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lectures?A. I can’t understand my lecturers most of the timeB. I can understand my lecturers most of the time but it is hard to listen and takenotes at the same timeC. I cannot understand everything my lecturers say but I can catch up by readinglecture notes after classesD. No problem at allCorrelation analyses performed on the three sets of data show that while there is anassociation between the categories of students (Australian and international) andthe response pattern amongst all three sets of data, the weakest is that of the ITstudents group. Table 67 shows a summary of responses distribution amongst thethree sets of data for question V.2.Table 67. Distribution of responses to question V.2 between international andlocal studentsOverall Students IT Students Business StudentsAust Intl Total Aust Intl Total Aust Intl TotalCan’t 3.2% 5.3% 4.6% 5.1% 5.2% 5.2% 3.0% 5.6% 4.6%understandHard to 9.7% 40.4% 29.0% 13.3% 35.9% 28.3% 10.8% 47.5% 33.3%take notesOnly if 8.8% 14.9% 12.7% 18.4% 20.3% 19.7% 6.4% 14.0% 11.0%read thelecturenotesNo 78.3% 39.3% 53.7% 63.3% 38.5% 46.9% 79.8% 32.9% 51.0%problemTotal 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%Count 373 636 1009 98 192 290 203 322 525From Table 67 we can see that the gap in responses between Australian andinternational students was the smallest for almost every option of this question. Thisimplies that the issues faced by both categories of students may be similar, andcould be due to the fact that material presented in IT courses is generally moretechnical than that of Business or other disciplines.6.4 Difficulties of Asian international students studying in Australian universitiesand how to be a successful learnerMost graduates think that reading textbooks is very important for them. In fact, thelecture notes and the content that teachers deliver in class are inadequate to totallyunderstand a subject. They also think that a good textbook should include some reallife examples.As to teaching method, the students do not like big lectures in which the teachersimply stands and reads the lecture notes. They think the same teaching methodshould be applied to all local and international students. For example, one graduatesaid, “I think the teaching methods for all students should be the same. Maybelecturers need to pay more attention to speaking clearly so a whole class ofinternational students can understand, but that is not a problem. In India, theteaching method is different. Multicultural means you need to learn about other125