ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature and extent of international student cohorts and the internationalisation of the curriculum. It explores issues associated with cultural adjustment, social integration, language proficiency, academic integrity and managing intercultural conflict. The chapter helps teachers to respond to the needs of international students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to feel confident that their teaching approaches are grounded in accepted principles of effective and inclusive teaching. It focuses on curriculum and teaching approaches that promote the learning of international students and on international students as a resource that can enrich learning. The chapter highlights good teaching for all students, especially international students, makes the implicit explicit. International students are expected to meet specified standards in the language of instruction before enrolment at a foreign university. International students, helped by local students, construct cultural maps that explain in detail how to communicate successfully in the host country.
