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Lead institution:University of Technology, SydneyProject leader:Professor Jie LuEmail: jielu@it.uts.edu.au Tel: 02 9514 1838Team membersDr. Juan YaoThe University of Sydney (J.Yao@econ.usyd.edu.au)Ms. KL ChinCurtin University of Technology (kl.chin@cbs.curtin.edu.au)Dr. Jitian XIAOEdith Cowan University (j.xiao@ecu.edu.au)Dr. Jun XuSouthern Cross University ( jun.xu@scu.edu.au)Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of theAustralian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in thisreport do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd.This work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 AustraliaLicence. Under this Licence you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and to make derivativeworks.Attribution: You must attribute the work to the original authors and include the following statement: Support for theoriginal work was provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the AustralianGovernment Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build on this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licenceidentical to this one.For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.To view a copy of this licence, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second St, Suite300, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.Requests and inquiries concerning these rights should be addressed to the Australian Learning and TeachingCouncil, PO Box 2375, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 or through the website: http://www.altc.edu.au2010Strategies And Approaches To Teaching And Learning Cross Cultures 1
Table of Contents0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 41 PROJECT OUTCOMES 72 RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 83 BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW 123.1 BACKGROUND 123.2 LITERATURE REVIEW 143.3 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS STUDY TO THE LITERATURE 154 SURVEY DATA ANALYSIS 164.1 FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR SURVEY DATA (1026 STUDENTS) 164.2 CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF SURVEY DATA AND HYPOTHESES TEST 454.3 OPEN QUESTION ANALYSIS 635 INTERVIEW DATA ANALYSIS 725.1 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INTERVIEW DATA ANALYSIS 725.2 STAFF INTERVIEW DATA ANALYSIS 785.3 LOCAL STUDENTS INTERVIEW DATA ANALYSIS 845.4 GRADUATES INTERVIEW DATA ANALYSIS 896 FINDINGS 976.1 COMPARISON BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND LOCALSTUDENTS ON LEARNING 986.2 COMPARISON OF PERSPECTIVES BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSAND LECTURERS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING 1196.3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN IT AND BUSINESS STUDENTS IN LEARNING 1212
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Page 5: 0 Executive SummaryAustralian terti
Page 8 and 9: 1 Project OutcomesThe outcomes of t
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Page 15 and 16: 3.2 Literature reviewCross-cultural
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Hypotheses V.2H0: Student category
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encountered at university in 2/3/4
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III.7What are you most concerned ab
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II.6.EII.6.FII.6.GTextbooks you pre
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VII. OtherVII.1.1VII.1.2What are th
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III.6 Do you like lecturers to ask
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distribution of these comments acro
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Figure 4.5 University of Sydney und
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Australia is the environment (11.06
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example, one student said that home
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5 Interview Data AnalysisThis secti
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class?Eight students thought studen
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(1) Did you have any difficulty sel
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5.2 Staff interview data analysisA
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(2) Do you think that the methods y
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is the biggest problem”. One lect
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comments was, “No, I send them to
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lecturer, and one of them like the
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am a shy person I am not comfortabl
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When they have difficulties in read
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(7) Have you been involved in many
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Only two of the graduates had diffi
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Furthermore, I was not familiar wit
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ased communication style such as e-
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ead lecture notes.2. Regarding the
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II.9 0.022 0.097 0.174 0.02 0.135II
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From Table 65, we can see that ther
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countries peoples. Personally, I fi
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perceived by them as something insi
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7. Arrange peer groups for those st
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covered (or not covered well) in th
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13. Ask assistance from internation
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11) • Weekly groupcase studies an
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8 Guideline for International Stude
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life. However, it is very important
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There are ways of maintaining focus
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Expect to be nervous initially and
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Avoid cheating and plagiarismAustra
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9 Disciplinary and interdisciplinar
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10 Results communication, publicati
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Visiting Professor Javier Montero f
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11 ReferencesAsmar C. (1999), Schol
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