The possible presence of an external brain drain and/or internal brain drain related to Saudi health care professionals was investigated. Saudi students enrolled in health care professions programs in North America (N=1523) were surveyed using a self-administered online question…
Many factors influence hygiene but those that have the greatest impact vary widely across population groups. Our aim was to characterize hand hygiene practices of Saudi students studying in the U.S. by completing two objectives: (1) assess hand hygiene knowledge, perceptions, an…
There are around 80,243 Saudi Arabian students are now studying in the United States under the King Abdullah scholarship program (M. Alshaalan, personal communication, May 5, 2013).This research will focus on finding the challenges faced by Saudi ESL scholarship students and how…
Increasing numbers of Saudi students are attending universities and language programs throughout the United States. Recently the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) identified that many of these students are struggling with reading and writing in English, and they have encoura…
Since the work of Gardener and his associates in the 1950s, the role of motivation in learning a second language has continued to interest researchers. Previous studies on L2 motivation, were largely based on product oriented models of motivation, which tends to view motivation …