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‘Welcoming the World’Should international students be separately targeted

using dedicated library web pages in UK universities?

Liz Blacker

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BIG BUSINESS! Different

opinions

So WHY study this?

Students feelwelcome

SCONULrecommendation

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The RESEARCH

117websites

16interviews

16features

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The FINDINGS

Survey own

students

Separatetargeting?

Easy

Access

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It’s really, really frustrating to have to browse for a long time…it is so upsetting because probably you are not looking for anything else, you are just looking for one thing…and you’re like aargh!

(Interviewee S2)

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NewSystems

Language &communication

Culturalissues

Major Challenges

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Namedco-ordinator

Supporton campus

What to expect

Guides in English

Internationalresources

Glossary – Explanation

What Features?

Develop language

skills

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Websitescontacts

Generic guides

Multilingualguides

Glossary-

Translation

What Features?

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Study skills Information

literacy help

English languageresources

What Features?

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That’s fantastic…but…I am talking to you from my own experience, quite a lot of the people I have met who are the so-called EU students, particularly the UK students, oh my God, yea they speak good English, let them come and write. Oh my God! It’s horrible.

(Interviewee S5)

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Named multilingual

staffMultilingual‘Welcome’

page

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10Features —

recommended

Dedicated pages

Access?

Summary

2Features —

caution

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What’s NEXT?

Linkswith colleagues

Community approach

Furtherresearch

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Thank you for listening!

What questions

do you have?

Liz Blacker email: [email protected]