There is one article from Rebekah Nathan’s book expressed that American students’, who came from other nations, reaction of academic settings in US university. At first, Rebekah was surprised by the freedom and informality in classes. According to International students, they always have strict rules in their national class which means eating and drinking are banned, because eating and drinking will interrupt teachers in classes. Also, students are not allowed to coming and going during class. The informal action almost caused by open and friendly. Nathan mentioned that some students from the middle east i.e. UAE and Somalia, saw this as liberating since they were not forced to act in certain ways in the native countries’ classrooms. Others from Asia thought that the American teachers were very helpful to the point of assisting students both inside and outside of class as opposed to teachers in their countries who viewed their profession as more of a job.
Nathan expressed that students always thought that US universities’ courses are easy as the same as their elementary school, …show more content…
Students in American universities are able to choose classes whatever they want. International said their home countries are only limited choice of classes, because they have specific majors which directly connect with their test score. Also, clubs and other extra courses are able for anyone to take. There is a Korean woman said that the freedom of choice are due to the fact of US culture, even a small children will be ask food choices. Nathan mentioned that the “downside” to these choices were seen by some as causing more “complication” in the education process and that students could easily end up being less specialized. Also, one foreign born teacher was surprised that the ease of dropping classes seemed to make students here less likely to take his advice and