Sunday, 9 November 2008

First draft of my Research report

Introduction

In recent decades, the number of overseas students coming to London Metropolitan University has increased dramatically. The university wants to attract overseas student to develop the variety of students, to improve the services and to help overseas students. A good amount of research has the overseas start coming to UK might have different expectation from the UK. It might have different expectation from international students at pre-sessional English course, in London Metropolitan University, before and after they arriving in London ,regarding Londoners’, city life, university life and British weather, but a study have not been come up at to find the expectation of pre-sessional students.

Aims

The purpose of this research was to investigate the expectations of international student from London at the Pre-sessional English course in London Metropolitan University, before and after arriving on London. We wanted to find out the students’ expectation regarding Londoners’, university life, city life, and the weather.

Method

The Sample

The sample size was 16. These respondents were of different ages, genders, courses and from different nationalities. They were all international students at the pre-sessional course in London Metropolitan University.
The survey was to investigate the expectation of international student from London at Pre-sessional English course in London Metropolitan University, before and after they arrived in London. The research was carried out by funds of a questionnaire consisting of 16 key questions. The questionnaire was first trialled in class. Trivial modification was made to simplicity 16 questionnaires and a final description of questionnaire we agreed to use for interview. Criteria for selecting the subjects were chosen by us as group member. For the final research, as a group we interviewed 20 international students from pr-sessional English courses, in London Metropolitan University. There was a balance of male and female students, although the majority of students were aged between 20 and 25. The questions focused for international students on their London expectation, before and after their arrived in London and how helpful it had been for them.

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