The current Australian support systems, in place to optimise the investment of international students in adaptation to the demands of a new culture and people, are in real need of reformulation.
They frequently make international postgraduate students experience feelings that connect to emptiness.
Through close contact with good writing and intellectuals that belong to the Writing Scenery of Academia or their circles, we get to conclusions that matter.
One of the main issues is that administrators have been belittling the capacity of judgement and assessment of very well known companies, such as those producing the IELTS and TOEFL exams.
That is an ethical matter: they themselves chose those exams of proficiency, from those particular companies, as parameters that give them a final verdict on suitability and adequacy.
The person who comes from overseas to do research in Australia and is judged competent enough in the English language to attend their postgraduate courses or environments needs eloquence, cultural understanding and items of that type.
They don't really need more courses on the English language.
Experts in writing, so best Australian writers, the most eloquent and creative, drawn from the group of proper academics (experts with formation in Education, interest in really improving the quality of the expression and thinking of their students, if possible to their own level and so on) are our best weapon in this fight.
What a phenomenal waste of resources the current systems of support are and what a difference it is simply stopping to read good prose, of people who really know what they are writing about and master the art of communication in the English language.
We should all be interested in academic communications; proper academic communications.
It is of fundamental importance to measure pre-existing vocabulary and compare results from before and after our courses.
There is also style of writing, complexity and layers or meaning...
Language course providers are not really worried about what they should.
Universities should invest, in a massive manner, in this process, of adaptation of the overseas research student to our culture, language and people.
In terms of academic communications, the best choice is a range of residents chosen from the group of best writers of Australia (poetry, lyric essay, academic essay assessed solely on the grounds of linguistics, etc.), full immersion of the imported asset into that universe, so students living under the same roof as those (conversing with proper writers opens the windows of discovery to many), a range of planned activities to share culture insights (writing scripts, playing roles, debating experiences, etc.) and others.
Integration between the academics teaching the courses and residents will contribute, in a meaningful manner, to the integral development in that arena, so that guest lecturing should be a weapon that is frequently triggered.
Expression, level of skills and eloquence may not mean much in Mathematics, when the sigmatoid is connected to its popular sense, but it certainly means a lot in Philosophy and foundations of Mathematics.
All mistakes that are gross in both areas, Philosophy and Mathematics, come from misconceptions and misunderstandings in what regards the foundations.
All connects, in a direct way, to our skills in Communication.
We cannot be good professors if we don't communicate well.
We cannot be good researchers if we don't master the Art of Communication.
The better we can do there, the better we will do in Academia and that seems to be a settled item.
They frequently make international postgraduate students experience feelings that connect to emptiness.
Through close contact with good writing and intellectuals that belong to the Writing Scenery of Academia or their circles, we get to conclusions that matter.
One of the main issues is that administrators have been belittling the capacity of judgement and assessment of very well known companies, such as those producing the IELTS and TOEFL exams.
That is an ethical matter: they themselves chose those exams of proficiency, from those particular companies, as parameters that give them a final verdict on suitability and adequacy.
The person who comes from overseas to do research in Australia and is judged competent enough in the English language to attend their postgraduate courses or environments needs eloquence, cultural understanding and items of that type.
They don't really need more courses on the English language.
Experts in writing, so best Australian writers, the most eloquent and creative, drawn from the group of proper academics (experts with formation in Education, interest in really improving the quality of the expression and thinking of their students, if possible to their own level and so on) are our best weapon in this fight.
What a phenomenal waste of resources the current systems of support are and what a difference it is simply stopping to read good prose, of people who really know what they are writing about and master the art of communication in the English language.
We should all be interested in academic communications; proper academic communications.
It is of fundamental importance to measure pre-existing vocabulary and compare results from before and after our courses.
There is also style of writing, complexity and layers or meaning...
Language course providers are not really worried about what they should.
Universities should invest, in a massive manner, in this process, of adaptation of the overseas research student to our culture, language and people.
In terms of academic communications, the best choice is a range of residents chosen from the group of best writers of Australia (poetry, lyric essay, academic essay assessed solely on the grounds of linguistics, etc.), full immersion of the imported asset into that universe, so students living under the same roof as those (conversing with proper writers opens the windows of discovery to many), a range of planned activities to share culture insights (writing scripts, playing roles, debating experiences, etc.) and others.
Integration between the academics teaching the courses and residents will contribute, in a meaningful manner, to the integral development in that arena, so that guest lecturing should be a weapon that is frequently triggered.
Expression, level of skills and eloquence may not mean much in Mathematics, when the sigmatoid is connected to its popular sense, but it certainly means a lot in Philosophy and foundations of Mathematics.
All mistakes that are gross in both areas, Philosophy and Mathematics, come from misconceptions and misunderstandings in what regards the foundations.
All connects, in a direct way, to our skills in Communication.
We cannot be good professors if we don't communicate well.
We cannot be good researchers if we don't master the Art of Communication.
The better we can do there, the better we will do in Academia and that seems to be a settled item.
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