Exploring the difficulties of teaching programming to non-native English speakers at an Australian regional university

• Programming is a difficult skill to learn for many students. • Most programming languages are in English. • Teaching an English-based programming language to international students especially challenging. • This research paper is one piece of a larger research project. • This research paper will highlight and focus on some issues related to the teaching of programming for novices. • Providing a beginning for further research into this area.