u/oatmeaIdad

I was recently in a university tutorial where a large proportion of the class were international students, and most seemed to have fairly limited English proficiency.

This was an Arts subject where a lot of the class involved discussion, interpreting readings and expressing arguments. I noticed the tutor had to spend quite a bit of time rephrasing questions, explaining things in simpler terms and heavily guiding students through activities.

What made me start thinking about this was that I often found myself knowing the answers to the questions and wanting to discuss the material further, but we'd have to stop and spend quite a lot of time re-explaining things. We didn't end up getting through everything the tutor had planned.

I'm curious about this from the teacher's perspective. Does this become frustrating or difficult to manage when a significant proportion of a tutorial needs more linguistic scaffolding? Particularly in Arts subjects, where being able to understand readings, participate in discussion and articulate an argument is such a big part of the course.

How do tutors balance supporting students who are still developing their academic English with making sure students who are already comfortable with the material still get enough opportunity to engage at the intended level?

I'm not really asking whether international students should or shouldn't be admitted. I'm more interested in what this is actually like from the educator's perspective and how teachers deal with it in practice.

i was in coles today and i noticed that indian had its own section. i was wondering what sets it apart from the rest of the asian section?

this could be an extremely stupid question and if it is please forgive my youthfulness, but how did people use to get jobs before everything was digitised? now everything is done through the likes of indeed or seek but before this was the norm what happened?

i’ve tried job hunting on both of those sites and wow that is one way to crush someone’s soul because i why i am hoping for a minimum wage job against hundreds of other people. i’ve been told to walk in with my resume to show incentive but i’ve either been told that there is already have enough staff or i never got a response afterwards. so all of that got me wondering how people use to find jobs 🙃

can someone please explain to me the lore of becki jones!! all i know is that she used to be quite large and now she isn’t but that aside i see a lot of people talk about her as a not so good person but who is she really?

lots of discussion on yagp seeing as it’s going on right now, but does anyone else miss the culture of yagp/ballet culture pre covid? i don’t know how to word this, but i feel like pre covid ballet culture, especially in regards to competitions like yagp was for the purpose of actually competing. now, everything just seems to be for content/influencing and “getting” your name out there with a crazy amount of tricks which are admittedly impressive but still. this probably doesn’t make much sense but anyways

i’m a first year uni student who is in desperate need of a job. i would literally do anything at this point. i went to a good school, did lots of volunteering, and i’ve had one job at my local restaurant a year or so ago.

i don’t know how to find a job. like i know the process of apply for one and whatnot, but the issue is the lack of entry level (is that right term?) work available and how hundreds of people are applying to the same position. i’ve applied to just about everything i can find and most of the time i never hear back, even if i follow up with them. occasionally, i will get rejected.

i don’t really know what to do. i need the money for obvious reasons, and i feel so defeated because it’s not like i’m not trying; i am and i see my savings dropping everyday since my financial situation has changed recently so i don’t have the support i used to and i just i don’t know.

sooo… if someone could help me out, i think i would cry tears of joy 🥳

as title states, trying to change the theme like the header on my profile but that option has seemingly disappeared? used to be when you clicked edit profile it was there, but now it’s gone in app and online?

as title states, trying to change the theme like the header on my profile but that option has seemingly disappeared? used to be when you clicked edit profile it was there, but now it’s gone in app and online?