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(1) Did you have any difficulty selecting your subjects, for example your major, minoror electives?Nine students said they had some difficulties in selecting their subjects. Forexample, one student said, “Yes, when I first came here. I don’t know what unit Ishould enrol”. In contrast, ten students said they did not have difficulties. One ofthem said, “I didn't because all of my subjects were set for me before I came here,there were a pre-set group of units I that I had to do”.(2) Are you familiar with the university’s referencing system?Sixteen students were familiar with the referencing system. One student said, “Now Iam familiar. It is important to use end note, if you don't … it is a whole lot of trouble”.Five students were not familiar with the system. One of them said, “No, I am not. Inever saw it in China before … but cannot master the whole system”.(3) Are you happy with the way the credit point system works?Eleven students were satisfied with the credit point system. One of them said, “Yes,I am happy with the way the credit point system works”. Four students did not havespecial feeling about the system. One of them said, “It doesn’t matter to me. Weused a similar system in my country”.(4) Where do you normally do your study? Why?Fourteen students usually studied at home. For example, one of them said, “Inormally study at home, because there are no people to disturb me at home, whilst Istudy”. Four students usually studied at school. For example, one student said, “Ingeneral, I studied in the library because I feel that there is good study atmosphere”.Three students studied both at school and at home. One student said he spent halfhis time studying at home, and the other half in the university’s library. He wouldchoose to study in the library when he couldn’t concentrate very well at home.Sometimes, he would study at home if the library was too crowded.(5) Do you spend more time studying on campus or do you spend more timestudying at home?One student said he spent half of the time on campus. He said, “I think half of thetime is in the campus, because both studying in the campus or at home haveadvantages and disadvantages”. Nine students said they did not spend much timeon campus. One of them said, “Now that I’m doing my Masters, I only come to uni toget information from the internet”. Eight students said they spent much time oncampus. For example, one student said she spent much time on campus, as herhome is close to the university, but even if she had not been living very close, shewas still willing to study on campus.5.1.4 Language(1) Would you say that language was the main problem when you started your studyin Australia?All of the international students agreed with this. For example, one of them said,“Yes, I had big problems. Although we passed an IELTS test … But when I camehere, I can not use English properly in unfamiliar situations … Even now I still havelanguage problem”.(2) What is the main issue with English? Reading? Understanding? Writing?All of the students said they had English problems, although their problems differed.Collectively, they had difficulties in reading, understanding and writing. One of themsaid, “I think, except reading, all other areas I have problems with”. Some of themhave only one problem, such as “Mainly it is the listening”. Some students haddifficulties in writing: “For me, at first I found that writing was difficult”.76