Foreign language influence on studies in UK

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My research is on "Foreign language influence on studies in UK". The main objective of this research project is to show how international student in Staffordshire University adapt their own comprehension during their English studies. The purpose of this study is to know what the consequences of a foreign language on success are. Words which are associated with this study are: motivation, sociability, language, knowledge. The main research question is: Does the foreign language affect a students' success? Nowadays there are a lot of cultural and scholarship exchange programs called Socrates, Erasmus, Comenius, Leonardo, etc... These programs are aimed at making students fluent in foreign language during studies. We can monitor these programs because people involved are at the heart of the subject.

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[...] The second question is the evaluation students made about their own English skills before arriving in UK. I need these answers for the chi square test which would be done with the previous question. The third question is aimed to show how many students from this study live in campus accommodation because I though that the fact that they live in campus with people from other countries encourage them to use English when they speak to each other. The fourth question is aimed to understand the level of comprehension in 4 different ‘domains' in studies: - Lecture comprehension: the way that ‘class' are managed, the way that student can learn in lectures - Schoolmate comprehension: how they understand their schoolmate during lectures, workshop - Lecturer/adult comprehension: how they understand lecturer when they are speaking (accent, speed ) - Workshop comprehension: how they understand the concept of workshop (working together ) All this factors could be noted between 1 (poor) to 5 (good), I will analyse these results by mean, etc . [...]

[...] These programs are aimed to make students fluent in foreign language during studies. We can monitor these programs because people involved are in the heart of the subject. We need to look to language acquisition theories to understand the mean that people learn to speak and adapt in other countries. Language Natives theory The well-known linguist Noam Chomsky states in his book (reflections of language, 1975) that children were born with a special device which help them on language acquisition, and make them understand some principles and adjustable parameters that are common to all human languages. [...]

[...] I will collect data from my sampling frame based students who come from foreign country and are in a course in Staffordshire University. When we manage studies in Staffordshire University we need to fill an ethical approval form to the faculty of Business and Law. We need to follow some guidelines given by the chair of our faculty ethics committee. For non-specialized and general studies we need only to fill a fast track. When the study is directed to specialized subjects or animal/violence directed studies we need to fill a complete ethics approval form. [...]

[...] Three to ten said that they use english in group work. Qualitative Data I made a Chi square test to analyse if the level of english skills could be connected with student origin. I was surprised about the result of this test. With only ten people I found a positive chi square test 3,54, Theorical 5,99) with 2 degrees of freedom. I was also surprised about the involvement in the sixth question, I didn't expect a lot of answers. I though that a lot of students were speaking english during lunchs and dinner, but “personne” answer lunch of dinner. [...]

[...] So the level of certainty will be low. I will be looking how international students manage their studies in UK and how much they succeed during their courses. By the way I will pilot the questionnaire with one international student. And I will select people (from whom English language isn't their mother language) using a random sampling and a stratified random sampling. I try to target people from each culture, to make this study the more relevant as possible. All information which will be collected by this questionnaire will be kept strictly confidential. [...]