Publication Preview Source It's [not] just the English: Issues in the pre-departure academic orientation of international Masters and research students

Piscioneri, Matthew and Amelia, Citra and Fauzanna, Wulan Publication Preview Source It's [not] just the English: Issues in the pre-departure academic orientation of international Masters and research students. International Journal of Indonesian Studies, 4. pp. 193-212. ISSN 2203-4692

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Abstract

This paper reports on research that examined the academic resources and language materials a group of mainly Indonesian international Non Native English Speaking Background Masters and Research Higher Degrees students received prior to the commencement of their degrees in Australia. Contrary to the researchers' expectations, expectations which are also often emphasized in the literature pertaining to this issue, the data pertaining to post-commencement reflections suggest that academic English language competency was not always or mainly identified by respondents as the main challenge these students faced in transition. In terms of academic orientation, for many of the respondents, issues linked to their transition that related as much to navigating a new culture of inquiry as it did to a new language of inquiry were as much if not more significant than the issue of (academic) English.

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