1. I prefer this term over the more frequently used “foreign” or “international” students because it includes a new category of students who do not fit the profile of these other terms—new immigrants with low language skills
2. International Students and the Library;DiMartino,2000
3. DiMartino and Zoe, “International Students,” p. 20
4. For a list of 18 articles citing the language barrier as a problem, see, for example, Allen Natowitz, “International Students in U.S. Academic Libraries: Recent Concerns and Trends,” Research Strategies 13 (Winter 1995): 4–16
5. The Role of the University in Preparing Teachers for a Linguistically Diverse Society;Crandall,2000