Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoyang Zhang; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yang Da Wei

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

, there were 442,273 international students in China in all, in which48,394 majored in engineering, ranking only below the numbers of students majored inthe traditional popular majors-Mandarin Chinese (169,093) and Western Medicine(49,022). In addition, with China joined the Washington Accord as a signatory countryand lots of engineering programs taught in English was developed for internationalgraduate students further increase of international engineering students can be expected. Existent studies have explored the motivation, social-cultural adjustment,learning experiences of international students in China. Nevertheless, few studies haveexplored their learning outcomes. Considering the shift towards outcome-basededucation in global

Conference Session

Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Porcel, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

the language is only a meansto social gains with very little interest in the culture or the community of people who speak thelanguage. On the contrary, the integrative orientation implies a personal involvement or desireto connect with the community that speaks the language, get access to its culture or evenbecome a member of the group. The former distinction is not supposed to be taken as amutually exclusive dichotomy since there is an element of instrumentality in the integrativeorientation [21] [22]. The remaining sections of this paper will present a study on language attitudes amongundergraduate students enrolled in an engineering public university. Before moving on to thenext section, a brief synthesis of the discussion up to this