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Understanding the Homesick Experience through the Narratives of First-Year College Residential Students
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Talita Santos Ferrara – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Homesickness is a complex phenomenon that operates on a spectrum and impacts individuals' psychological, cognitive, and physical functioning. Sufferers experience a preoccupation of home and a strong desire to return home. In higher education, homesickness among first-year students has been linked to a higher risk of dropping out of school,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response
First-Year International Chinese Undergraduate Students' Academic Writing in the Digital Age
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Yang, Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Driven by the desire to expand and deepen the understanding of the academic performance and multiliteracies development of international Chinese undergraduate students, and the current scarcity of research on the said topic, this study examined first-year international Chinese students' academic writing process, and how this process was situated…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Academic Language
Examining the Correlation between American Students' Cultural Intelligence and Their Social Distances from Their International Peers at a Private Midwestern University
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Mejri, Sami – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The number of international students studying at American colleges and universities has increased tremendously since 2000. The influx of global student mobility has had positive economic outcomes for higher education institutions in the U.S. and has given rise to voluminous literature concerning the cultural and educational experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Social Distance, Peer Relationship