Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I - Curriculum I

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

N. Krishnamurthy, (Self-employed)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

by international students (Asian or otherwise), the causecould be traced to language issues, particularly in understanding the teacher and the material, andin expressing descriptive passages and abstract concepts in the English language. Singaporehaving been under British rule until after World War II and continuing to be under the influenceof Britain-trained policy makers, its lingua-franca is English, more British than American. In Group-A, by the time the student reached my course (Junior-Senior level), the foreignstudents had caught up with local idiom (– playfully referred to as 'Singlish') and the presentationskills of their peers sufficiently to hold their own in class and do well in assessments. Languagemistakes might be hidden in