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Brunsting, Nelson C.; Mischinski, Megan; Wu, Wenjin; Tevis, Tenisha; Takeuchi, Risa; He, Yueying; Zheng, Yihan; Coverdell, Travis L. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
Despite the increase in methodological sophistication and complexity of models being tested for international student adjustment to universities in the United States (U.S.), researchers often do not test or control for salient demographic differences between students, including their educational status (i.e., graduate or undergraduate) and country…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Adjustment
Ma, Junqian – Journal of International Students, 2017
Social adjustment is one of the most difficult and long-lasting challenges for international students who study in a new country. This paper uses a case study of cooperative painting activity conducted in Australian setting, in which two Chinese and three other students from different countries participated, in order to assess the efficiency of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Social Adjustment, Group Activities
Crowther, Dustin – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
International students encounter academic and social adjustments different than those of their domestic peers. Of particular concern is language proficiency, specifically students' investment in continual language development throughout university study. In the current article, I present a comparative case study of two Chinese freshmen (Jenn,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, Social Adjustment
Ma, Junqian – Journal of International Students, 2020
Due to the significant growth in Chinese students pursuing education abroad, there is an increasing trend for researchers to study Chinese international students' challenges, especially the challenges in social adjustment. However, only a few studies intend to design activities or supporting practices to solve these challenges. This study, drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Elturki, Eman; Liu, Yang; Hjeltness, Justyna; Hellmann, Kate – Journal of International Students, 2019
This research assesses the first cohort of pathway students' needs and their academic and sociocultural experiences at a US university. A needs analysis survey, individual student interviews, and a follow-up survey were used for data collection. Understanding lectures, completing assignments, and building social relationships with domestics were…
Descriptors: Barriers, Foreign Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Assignments
Li, Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with 15 participants at a Midwestern research university, the study found that the majority of Chinese graduate students came with a strong student identity that conflated with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Asians, Graduate Students, Barriers
Coles, Rebecca; Swami, Viren – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
The present research explores the sociocultural adjustment of international students and the role played by university structures in the process. The adjustment process of international students has been modelled in psychological literature as a U-curve, a learning curve and most recently as a long, uneven and unending process of change. Yet,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Asians, Student Adjustment
Spurling, Nicola – LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2007
This paper presents an empirical study of the social situations of first year Chinese students in one UK University. The study used in-depth interviews and constructivist grounded theory to investigate the social situations of 19 foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2004-05. This exploratory approach was informed by Siu's…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries