Cultural, Linguistic, and Emotional Adjustment: Adaptation of International Students into a U.S. College

Authors

Presenter(s)

Tong Li

Files

Description

International students’ enrollment at academic institutions in the U.S. has expanded in the last decade. Plenty of research studies show that these international students experience acculturation difficulties in adapting to both academic performance and residence life (Gebhard, 2012). This study aimed at exploring the cultural, linguistic, and emotional stresses that international students experienced as well as the adjustment they g through to adapt at an American institution. The qualitative approach was used to study international students at an urban, mid-sized, Midwestern university. The findings of this study indicated that international students’ adaptation and adjustment into college learning community could be accelerated by various sources of motivation, cultural interaction services, and language improvement activities provided by education administrators.

Publication Date

4-9-2015

Project Designation

Graduate Research

Primary Advisor

Nasser Razek

Primary Advisor's Department

Counselor Education and Human Services

Keywords

Stander Symposium project, student affairs, School of Education and Health Sciences

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Engineering | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

"Cultural, Linguistic, and Emotional Adjustment: Adaptation of International Students into a U.S. College" (2015). Stander Symposium Projects. 697.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/697