Language and Anxiety: An Ethnographic Study of International Postgraduate Students

By Lorraine Brown. 2008

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Language and Linguistics

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How researchers see this paper

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In Communication

1. H. Stallman
2. C. Wright
3. N. Khawaja
4. A. Schartner

In Language and Linguistics

1. C. Wright
2. N. Khawaja
3. H. Stallman
4. A. Schartner

Citations in the corpus

• ‘I can’t … I won’t?’ International students at the threshold of social interaction (2013, background): “adequate English is one of the biggest barriers to international students’ success (Furnham and Bochner, 1986; Andrade, 2006; Zhang and Mi, 2010), and a common source of anxiety (Brown, 2008; Brown and Holloway, 2008).”
• Understanding the Coping Strategies of International Students: A Qualitative Approach (2011, background): “Brown (2008) in an ethnographic study found that frustration and anxiety associated with language was associated with initial settlement difficulties.”
• Coping with loneliness: A netnographic study of doctoral students (2014, unknown): “For staff, however, they simply may not have the time to dedicate to a student unused to Western academic culture, and they may expect the student to be independent straight away (Brown 2008).”