Multilingual International Students From the Perspective of Faculty: Contributions, Challenges, and Support

Faculty’S Perspectives On International Students

Exploring faculty’s perspectives on and experiences with multilingual international students can offer unique insight into the (co-constructed) international student experience. The following paragraphs aim to contextualise such insight by foregrounding three important inter-related dimensions of socio-academic experience commonly found in the scholarly literature. First, this review will discuss the influence which multilingual international students’ interactions with faculty can have on the students’ perceptions of their academic performance, both inside and outside the classroom. Second, it will identify some of the challenges faculty have reported to encounter while working from their multiple roles with multilingual international students. And third, this review will present some of the benefits faculty associate with the multilingual international student presence in academic communities. Altogether, the findings in this section help illustrate some of the complexity inherent in faculty-international student interactional experiences.