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2011: Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Teaching Students With Different Backgrounds

  • Líney Halla Kristinsdóttir
  • Nélida Leiva
  • Kilian Mergenthaler
  • Cassandra Niman
  • Roman Pasechnik
Submitted
January 31, 2013
Published
2013-01-31

Abstract

In elementary and secondary education in Sweden one can usually assume that most students have
similar basic knowledge and know what is required of them. Students who have Swedish as second
language or have recently moved to Sweden are assisted in getting into the system. When it comes
to tertiary education, however, the situation is quite different. Not only is the number of international
students ever increasing [1], but it is not uncommon that students from different levels and different
departments take the same courses.