English Portfolio: Analyzing Student Challenges in Higher Education

This English portfolio report examines the multifaceted challenges students encounter in higher education. It begins with an introduction outlining the portfolio's purpose and structure, followed by a main body that delves into academic and reflective writing. The academic writing section explores challenges faced by students from lower economic backgrounds and those in face-to-face learning environments, highlighting issues such as financial constraints, communication barriers, cultural differences, and language difficulties. The reflective writing segment provides a personal perspective on these challenges, particularly focusing on the author's experiences with communication barriers. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of academic writing and reflective practices in addressing student difficulties. References to relevant academic literature are included, along with an appendix summarizing key sources and justifications for their use. This portfolio provides a comprehensive overview of the obstacles students face in higher education and the significance of reflective practices in navigating these challenges.

ENGLISH PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Academic writing...................................................................................................................1
Reflective writing...................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
English portfolio is chosen to evaluate the work of people with a compilation in the best
coursework. Portfolio is accumulation of work that show achievement and effort. In this report it
discusses about the challenges in group of students faced in higher education system. It also
explains the academic reflective writing process and situation in high education. It presents the
overall effect on students' learning and knowledge. Each point discusses team of students in
relation with challenge.
MAIN BODY
Academic writing
It refers to a mode of expression that investigators used to define intellectual edge of its
disciplines and specific arena of expertise. Academic writing need formal languages, evidence
for support and logical structure (Bailey, 2014). This is a skill that every student need to develop
and learn across the time at Educational institution. Lower economic status students and face to
face students face challenges in higher education.
Lower economic status students
Every person need to achieve its goals and aim in life's by having the knowledge of
higher education, but low social class people do not afford high education the reason is lack of
money. Lower economy face many challenges for acquiring the higher pedagogy because they do
not have much money to get the admission in the best education institutions that effect its growth
and success in life (Hew and Cheung, 2014). Thus, to get the good qualification students need to
have a lot of money. Lower social status people cannot afford the high education facilities
because this process complete by many stages.
Education Institutions fees are higher than now, that directly affect the students'
education level. At each and every level of student study life's need to spend money to get the
good education, in this point mentors or teacher give research projects that might be much
expensive. For example: Middle class families and working poor people cannot afford their
children's education. Research in economy level has consistently demonstrates that students with
lower social status have few opportunities to achieve success in higher education contexts. But
other candidates do not have the opportunity because they do not have much money (Fry, 2014).
Thus, for low economy student's higher education is far away from their culturally amoral
environment because education system is organized and build agreeable to taken for granted.
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Middle class students also experience psychological challenges in sense of belonging, emotional
experience, motivation and self-percetion. All these section views their psychological barriers.
Researchers demonstrate that low class students face another challenge that is difference of
education.
Face to face students
Face to face means two or more students set in the class room and communicate with
each other. Communication between the groups of students is the biggest challenge in higher
education system. Thus, without communication activity they cannot complete their projects. In
Higher University there are many students came within having different culture and languages
that might be effect on other students while during communicate with them. Effective
communication between the students is the most priceless skills. Thus, to communicate with
other people they might be faced some challenges and barriers that impact on its behavior and
knowledge.
 Culture challenges: In the university every students have its different culture that affect
the other one during communication (Banks, 2015). Culture include with ideas, thoughts,
beliefs and manners of students. Without having any knowledge of students' culture and
belief's other pupil cannot respect their thoughts.
 Language challenges: Each and every student belong to different countries or states in
University (Valdés, 2014). Language is main source of communication without knowing
that things students also do not make an effective communication.
Reflective writing
Reflective writing is an analytic activity in which writer depict imaginary or a real scene,
passing thoughts, event, memory and experience (Gould and Taylor, 2017). Reflective report is
based on own feelings, self-knowledge, learning ways, understanding and achieve clarity etc.
I am the member of face to face students group. I have also faced communication
challenge during my higher studies and also face issues in communicating with other students by
having different cultures and languages. For example, when I need to discussed about the project
given by the mentors with other students I cannot build an effective communication activity
because they belong to other countries which have its own different language that make barriers
in this process. Language is the base of communication, I feel that all the students are facing this
challenges in the University. Communication challenge affect in my study and make barriers for
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completing my presentation. It highly gets impact on my education level and higher studies.
Cultural barriers also get lower the effective communication process between the students.
Therefore, when I am working in a group and want that other students will take my
advice or respect my thoughts and ideas it is important to know about each other culture and
beliefs perfectly. I feel that this would be missing between all the students. Communication is
the biggest challenge that affect my higher education process. In my class room each students
belong with some other countries within different language that will take some times to
communicate with them because I do not understand their language better. This will be more
challenging for the other students as well. It highly effects on my studies, because without
having any knowledge of new students' language or culture, I cannot communicate with them as
well as unable to give them any support in their studies.
CONCLUSION
In this report it has been concluded that academic writing is very important for learning
or determining the issues and problems of students. In this present study disuse about the
challenges that group of students has faced in its higher education system. It also explains the
academic reflective writing that define the problems and challenges which has to be faced during
the process of higher studies in University. Reflective writing and academic writing both are
different in its structure. In this study through reflective text people can express their feeling and
thoughts.
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REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Bailey, S., 2014. Academic writing: A handbook for international students. Routledge.
Banks, J.A., 2015. Cultural diversity and education. Routledge.
Fry, R., 2014. Young adults, student debt and economic well-being. Pew Research Center, 14.
Goodall Jr, H. L., 2016. Writing qualitative inquiry: Self, stories, and academic life. Routledge.
Gould, N. and Taylor, I., 2017. Reflective learning for social work: research, theory and
practice. Routledge.
Hew, K. F. and Cheung, W.S., 2014. Students’ and instructors’ use of massive open online
courses (MOOCs): Motivations and challenges. Educational research review. 12,.
pp.45-58.
Lightweis, S., 2014. The challenges, persistence, and success of white, working-class, first-
generation college students. College Student Journal. 48(3).pp.461-467.
Valdés, G., 2014. Heritage language students: Profiles and possibilities. In Handbook of
heritage, community, and native American languages in the United States (pp. 41-49).
Routledge.
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APPENDIX
References Notes Justification
Bailey, S., 2014.Academic
writing: A handbook
for international
students. Routledge.
By using this book, we get the
information about Academic
writing.
Through this book we get the
relevant details.
Hew, K. F. and Cheung, W.S.,
2014.Students’ and
instructors’ use of
massive open online
courses (MOOCs):
Motivations and
challenges. Education
al research
review. 12. pp.45-58.
Educational research help to
know about the lower
economy students problems
while they are facing in the
higher education system.
This will give the correct and
accurate info about the low
class students.
Banks, J.A., 2015. Cultural
diversity and
education. Routledge
Culture impact on education
system as well as students
higher studies.
This will justify the point
correctly.
Valdés, G., 2014. Heritage
language students:
Profiles and
possibilities.
In Handbook of
heritage, community,
and native American
languages in the
United States (pp. 41-
49). Routledge.
In this book we got the detail
and effect of difference
languages using in a group of
many students.
It give the valid information
about the topic.
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