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Each year,
more advisors are faced with a growing new group of
advisees who often speak English as their second
language or have different cultural
backgrounds. This new student population encompasses
students from a wide range of cultural and economic
backgrounds. They are diverse in age, education and
abilities. Many face particular challenges that are
difficult for advisors to address. They face
cultural adjustment, financial, emotional and
language proficiency problems.
This is
not a group that is easy to categorize: some may be
foreign students studying on student visas, others
may be citizens who have arrived in the country as
immigrants or refugees, some may have been in the
country only a matter of days, others for many
years. Some may be very proficient in spoken
English; others may still be struggling to speak.
This new student population has unique needs that
require different approaches from advisors.
Source:
ESL & International Student Advising Commission |
