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The Effect Of Peer Advisors On Esl Students' Perspectives Of University Academic Tasks, Monica Fishkin
The Effect Of Peer Advisors On Esl Students' Perspectives Of University Academic Tasks, Monica Fishkin
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A review of the related literature revealed that international students face specific academic challenges. The goal of this research was to investigate the effect of international student peer advising sessions on English as a Second Language (ESL) international students' perceptions of their language skills and strategies for dealing with academic tasks. The research design included a control and an experimental group with a pretest and a posttest administration of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and the Xu International Student Academic Language Needs Assessment (ISALNA-2) instruments. Qualitative data was also collected. The participants in the study were upper-intermediate level …