Undergraduates' Experiences with and Attitudes toward International Teaching Assistants

Barbara Sweeney Plakans

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Controversy continues to surround the instructional role of teaching assistants at large U.S. research universities who are not native speakers of English and who received their undergraduate training outside the U.S. Interactions between these international teaching assistants (ITAs) and their undergraduate students is sometimes threatened by miscommunication. The study described in this article adapted the Questionnaire About International Teaching Assistants (QUITA) survey instrument (Fox, 1992) to collect background information about undergraduates at one midwestern university, inquiring about their experiences with ITAs and their means for dealing with ITA problems and assessing their attitudes with respect to ITAs. The study examined the relationship between an attitude scale and 11 student background characteristics (e.g., year of enrollment, academic college, age, sex, size of hometown). In addition, focus-group interviews conducted with a subset of respondents explored their experiences and opinions relating to ITAs. The article compares the findings of this study with those of earlier research, including Fox's (1992) study, and recommends intervention strategies with undergraduates who are likely to encounter ITAs.

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