The authors present the results of this exploratory study,l suggest areas for further research, and discuss implications for college teaching. However, we were able to derive some recommendations for instructors and their teaching from the students with whom we talked. The following recommendations need to be interpreted within the particular teaching and learning context in order to be applicable.
Students appreciate when instructors make an effort to be sensitive to their ethnicity.
People of Asian descent in the U.S. have various citizenships - they may have recently arrived in the U.S. as refugees, they may be visiting students, they may be American citizens, or they may have any number of other connections with the U.S. 3. Students of Asian descent are not spokespersons for their ethnic groups. This assumption stems from the belief that these students think and share similar social, life, cultural, and academic experiences. As the students in this study indicated, they represent various ethnic groups, nationalities, and citizenship. Not all Asian-looking students in the classroom are visitors or foreign students.