For Faculty and Instructors
International students often arrive with strong subject knowledge and solid English test scores, yet still hold back in class. The barrier is usually not ability. It is the unwritten rules of participation, discussion, and communication with instructors.
Effective Communication and Academic Success for International Students helps students learn those rules, and helps instructors make them visible.
In Your Course
Ways to Use the Book
- First-year and transfer seminars that introduce students to university expectations.
- English for Academic Purposes and academic writing courses that go beyond language to communication in context.
- Graduate orientation and professional development for international master’s and doctoral students.
- Faculty learning communities on inclusive teaching for multilingual classrooms.
Routledge offers inspection copies to instructors considering the book for course adoption. Use the “Request Inspection Copy” option on the Routledge page.
Why It Works
What Instructors Will Find
- Communication treated as a learnable skill, with frameworks students can practice, such as the S.P.A.C.E. framework for starting conversations.
- Chapters on communication inside and outside the classroom, including participation, group work, and working with instructors.
- Direct discussion of accent bias, the immigration climate, neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ identity, and mental health as part of students’ lived realities.
- Worked examples of using generative AI ethically to improve academic and professional communication.
“Bjorn and Ma have written the book I wish existed when my international students walked into my classroom. They treat communication as a learnable skill—not a personality trait—and deliver frameworks students can actually use. Required reading for any campus serious about international student success.”
Stacey B. Lee, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, USA
Workshops
Bring the Authors to Your Department
Interested in a faculty workshop on supporting international students in your courses? Get in touch to discuss what would serve your department.