of My ICC Experience through Pair-work Human communication has been regarded as indispensible to ... more of My ICC Experience through Pair-work Human communication has been regarded as indispensible to the existing of social life. As an international student in Australia, I have obtained some reflections through the course of interacting with people of other cultures. First of all, I came from a high-context culture and I prefer sometimes face-to-face co-operation with others, but my identity of being a partner with others from different cultural backgrounds changes dramatically in order to adjust myself to what is the best to be done with others. My communication with others makes me ask many questions such as: what is the good way to interact and how? Is there any restrictions or styles of meeting others and how? However, in this context of group work, I have expectations and perceptions about others' ways of thinking, using verbal and non-verbal languages and how it is related to their cultures. In other words, I am more concern about my perceptions of other (visual, sound, dist...
Studying abroad is a big challenge for international students. However, many international studen... more Studying abroad is a big challenge for international students. However, many international students confront culture shock in various obstacles. For instance, language, educational system background, and daily life programs are some of the factors that harden homogeneous process of adjustment to a new culture. These obstacles may prevent international students from easily adjustment to a new culture. In this article, I would like to investigate these factors and how they reflect on international students' successfulness at college. In order to investigate these factors, I shall first give a definition of a culture shock to broaden the understanding of this term. The interpretation of culture sock depends on how we look at different culture. In other words, ''Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse'' (L. Oberg, 2001). Hence, I assert that language is the most crucial factor that aff...
There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in som... more There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces another a new challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals.
The purpose of this project is intended to answer and investigate which vocabulary learning strat... more The purpose of this project is intended to answer and investigate which vocabulary learning strategy do ELLs follow? ; and (2) which of these strategies are more effective to them in terms of their language level? This project also, introduces a new vocabulary learning strategy for ESL students from an ESL perspective. The strategy consists of five categories (Vocab-backup strategy) to assist ELLs to expose and acquire sufficient vocabulary data in a sequence of words' search that will allow them easily maintain their vocabulary knowledge (both receptive and productive vocabulary).
An overview to the Communicative Approach in language teaching and reflection to it from my own p... more An overview to the Communicative Approach in language teaching and reflection to it from my own perspective. Also, It talks about both advantages and disadvantages of this approach according to my context of language teaching in my country.
of My ICC Experience through Pair-work Human communication has been regarded as indispensible to ... more of My ICC Experience through Pair-work Human communication has been regarded as indispensible to the existing of social life. As an international student in Australia, I have obtained some reflections through the course of interacting with people of other cultures. First of all, I came from a high-context culture and I prefer sometimes face-to-face co-operation with others, but my identity of being a partner with others from different cultural backgrounds changes dramatically in order to adjust myself to what is the best to be done with others. My communication with others makes me ask many questions such as: what is the good way to interact and how? Is there any restrictions or styles of meeting others and how? However, in this context of group work, I have expectations and perceptions about others' ways of thinking, using verbal and non-verbal languages and how it is related to their cultures. In other words, I am more concern about my perceptions of other (visual, sound, dist...
Studying abroad is a big challenge for international students. However, many international studen... more Studying abroad is a big challenge for international students. However, many international students confront culture shock in various obstacles. For instance, language, educational system background, and daily life programs are some of the factors that harden homogeneous process of adjustment to a new culture. These obstacles may prevent international students from easily adjustment to a new culture. In this article, I would like to investigate these factors and how they reflect on international students' successfulness at college. In order to investigate these factors, I shall first give a definition of a culture shock to broaden the understanding of this term. The interpretation of culture sock depends on how we look at different culture. In other words, ''Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse'' (L. Oberg, 2001). Hence, I assert that language is the most crucial factor that aff...
There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in som... more There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces another a new challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals.
The purpose of this project is intended to answer and investigate which vocabulary learning strat... more The purpose of this project is intended to answer and investigate which vocabulary learning strategy do ELLs follow? ; and (2) which of these strategies are more effective to them in terms of their language level? This project also, introduces a new vocabulary learning strategy for ESL students from an ESL perspective. The strategy consists of five categories (Vocab-backup strategy) to assist ELLs to expose and acquire sufficient vocabulary data in a sequence of words' search that will allow them easily maintain their vocabulary knowledge (both receptive and productive vocabulary).
An overview to the Communicative Approach in language teaching and reflection to it from my own p... more An overview to the Communicative Approach in language teaching and reflection to it from my own perspective. Also, It talks about both advantages and disadvantages of this approach according to my context of language teaching in my country.
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