All Outputs (6)

“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2023, December). “I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. Paper presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June). Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh

Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previous sociocultural and educational contexts. This presentation explores the ex... Read More about Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures.

Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S., & Janssen, L. (2023, June). Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process. Paper presented at The Gathering, 2023: Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh

From 2016-2020 Sibylle conducted a longitudinal study on the trajectory of undergraduate language students at ENU. In their current project, Sibylle and Lisa (a participant of the original study) revisited this research by reflecting on six interview... Read More about Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process.

“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2023, May). “I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad. Paper presented at Imagining and Experiencing Hospitalities in a Mobile World, Edinburgh Napier University

Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, April). Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures. Presented at Sustaining Connections – The Participatory and Intercultural Potential of Digital Learning, Edinburgh Napier University

Negotiating interculturality in internationalising higher education: a multi-voiced exploration (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, F. H., Zhou, V. X., Penman, C., & Ratz, S. (2023). Negotiating interculturality in internationalising higher education: a multi-voiced exploration. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 5(1), 93-121. https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc409

In this article, we examined an oft-observed ‘interaction problem’ in the internationalising classroom by adding some reflections on universities’ internationalisation-interculturality praxis. Drawing on existing research and examples, we scrutinised... Read More about Negotiating interculturality in internationalising higher education: a multi-voiced exploration.