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Revista Lasallista de Investigación
Print version ISSN 1794-4449
Abstract
VINE-JARA, Ana Enriqueta and SAEZ-CARRILLO, Katia Lorena. Linguistic issues in foreign university exchange students. Rev. Lasallista Investig. [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.2, pp.13-26. Epub Aug 19, 2021. ISSN 1794-4449. https://doi.org/10.22507/rli.v17n2a1.
Introduction.
The number of international students who make university exchanges in Chilean universities has increased considerably. A large number of them come from countries whose native language is not Spanish.
Objectives.
To know the difficulties of international students (from three disciplinary fields: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Engineering) as perceived by academics, and define the representative academic genres that students should produce during the university exchange.
Materials and methods.
A quantitative study using a descriptive transectional design was carried out by applying an online questionnaire to 44 academics from a Chilean university.
Results.
The main difficulty observed by the academics corresponds to a deficient Spanish level, and regarding the representative genres that they must produce, in the written genres stand out: essay (Human Sciences) and laboratory report (Sciences of Engineering) and in oral genres: debates (Human Sciences) and oral presentation (Sciences of Engineering and Human Sciences).
Conclusion.
Universities need to define and require a Spanish level that allows international students (non-native Spanish) to perform sufficiently in the academic field. In addition, international students must be taught to produce written and oral texts in Spanish.
Keywords : foreign students; academic exchange; higher education; Spanish; academic genres.