Building Rapport between International Graduate Students and Their Faculty Advisors: Cross- Cultural Mentoring Relationships at the University of Guelph

Autor/inn/en	Omar, Faiza; Mahone, James P.; Ngobia, Jane; FitzSimons, John
Titel	Building Rapport between International Graduate Students and Their Faculty Advisors: Cross- Cultural Mentoring Relationships at the University of Guelph
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 7 (2016) 2, Artikel 8 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1918-2902
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Graduate Students; Mentors; Interpersonal Relationship; Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Academic Advising; Focus Groups; Semi Structured Interviews; Online Surveys; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Barriers; Financial Problems; Student Adjustment; Expectation; Student Responsibility; Teacher Responsibility; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland; Fakultät; Akademischer Rat; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Adaptation; Expectancy; Erwartung; Lehrverpflichtung; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Kanada
Abstract	Mentoring graduate students is very challenging, even when both the student and faculty have similar cultural values. Many international students have a different culture from that of Canadian. Their challenge is adapting to their new environment, and for their faculty advisors to understand and work well with them. This research explored the relationships, experience, and challenges of international graduate students and their faculty advisors at the University of Guelph, through focus group discussions, semi-structured face-to-face interviews and online surveys. Language barriers and financial difficulties were among the major challenges international students face adapting to their academic and social environment and working with their faculty advisors. We found that building good student-advisor relationship requires understanding graduate student and advisor formal responsibilities and expectations. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01