ESL students and american libraries

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 425-431

  MacDonald, Gina ^a   Sarkodie Mensah, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001196803     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_49_05_425     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Center for Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1985-1986 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Education, 1986), p.218-219
2. Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah, "In the Words of a Foreigner," Research Strategies 4:30-31 (Winter 1986).
3. Mary Alice Ball and Molly Mahony, "Foreign Students, Libraries and Culture," College & Research Libraries 48:160-66 (Mar. 1987)
4. Manuel D. Lopez, "Chinese Spoken Here: Foreign Language Library Orientation Tours," College & Research Libraries News 44:265 (Sept. 1983)
5. Terry Ann Mood, "Foreign Students and the Academic Library," RQ 22:176-80 (Winter 1982)
6. Sally G. Wayman, "The International Student in the Academic Library," Journal of Academic Librarianship 9:336-41 (Jan. 1984).
7. One Lebanese student, for example, was accused of cheating on his history exam because he had duplicated from memory, word for word, comma for comma, five pages of his textbook. However, he was vindicated when the teacher challenged him to repeat the performance and he did so with ease. Student and teacher were obviously working under different sets of assumptions. The student declared memorizing at length was easier for him than trying to rephrase new ideas and information into language that might not be as clear.
8. Robert L. Kohls, ed., "Resource 8," Developing Intercultural Awareness (Washington, D.C.: Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research, 1981), p.18-22.
9. Sarkodie-Mensah, "In the Words," p.31.
10. Wendy Moorhead, "Ignorance was Our Excuse," College & Research Libraries News 47:585-587 (Oct. 1986).
11. This practice can lead to disastrous misunderstandings, as when French Quarter customers, asking a Cambodian waitress if they could use the rest rooms in a fast food restaurant were told, "yes, yes," but none existed.
12. Louise Greenfield, Susan Johnston, and Karen Williams, "Educating the World: Training Library Staff to Communicate Effectively with International Students," Journal of Academic Librarianship 12:227-231 (Sept. 1986).
13. One might occasionally find students capable of the most amazing esoterica; for example, the Japanese western enthusiast who cries out, "Come back, Shane!" or the Arab lawyer who can recite the issues involved in the Goetz case.