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International GTFs

• As an international student, I wish I could learn more about cultural shock. I sometimes did not know how to deal with American students. For example, I did not know how to get their attention or respect.
  
  
• I think that it would be great if you can give extra encouragement and advice to GTFs who come from another culture and whose language is not English. I'm not sure what you can do; you cannot make a foreign accent disappear, but I would imagine that may be there's something that we foreigners can do to make cross-cultural communication with students easier. I still feel so self-conscious of my accent that I am in constant fear that the students have no idea of what I'm talking about.