This qualitative case study was an examination of a team-based faculty/mentorled International Doctoral Student Support Group (IDSSG) designed specifically around issues in preparing and mentoring international doctoral students for careers in academia. Twelve participants were selected to participate in a support/focus group that met twice a month for an academic year to attend workshops and discuss their lives as doctoral students. The data set was comprised of two pre-and post-surveys and two in-depth pre-and post-interviews. Findings in the themes of international doctoral students' graduate school experiences and the impact of the faculty-led support group are presented and discussed.Keywords International student Á Doctoral student Á Mentoring Á Case study Á Focus group Matriculation into a doctoral program of study can be a difficult transition for many people. Students transitioning into graduate school have been shown to experience increased feelings of insecurity, decreased self-esteem, and high levels of stress and anxiety (GrantVallone and Ensher 2000). Another gauge of the graduate school experience is persistence, or its negative counterpart, attrition. Although attrition rates vary by institution and

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This paper explores the concepts of motivation, including extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. It describes how motivation becomes a major concern in the field of instructional design (ID). Furthermore, a motivation model-the ARCS model-is identified and discussed. Finally, it provides an example of how to apply the motivational design process in ID. The aim of this paper is to facilitate a deeper understanding of motivation and to inform professionals about its importance in learning

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During the cross-language learning or experience process, human brains are aware of psychological "distance" between the languages they already know and the ones that they are currently learning or experiencing. Some seem to be closer, while some are more distant. This thesis will explore the approaches to visualize the phonetic and syntactical distance and relationships across ten of the world languages using notation design systems, scatterplots and human articulator diagrams with sample texts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The three methods mentioned above in this document are used to visualize different aspects of languages. Through simplifying the design of notation systems and showing the quantity of phonetic feature with scatterplots it allows readers to find out the distinct linguistic features which indicate the 'distance' among languages more effectively.