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Pull Factors in Choosing a Higher Education Study Abroad Destination after the Massive Global Immobility: A Re-Examination from Chinese Perspectives
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Guan, Lihang; Mok, Ka Ho Joshua; Yu, Baohua – Cogent Education, 2023
Chinese international students compose the largest group of full-tuition-paying students globally and are important to hosting destinations both culturally and financially. However, the obstructed international mobility caused by COVID-19 has changed their international applications. As the world gradually resumes its previous mobility level, it…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Marketing
"It's More Foreign than a Foreign Country": Adaptation and Experience of Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong
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Yu, Baohua; Zhang, Kun – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of Mainland students crossing the border to pursue tertiary studies in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. In contrast to those who have chosen to study in foreign countries, such as United States, United Kingdom or Germany, the Mainland group are studying…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Asians, College Students, Student Motivation
Determinants of International Students' Adaptation: Examining Effects of Integrative Motivation, Instrumental Motivation and Second Language Proficiency
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Yu, Baohua; Downing, Kevin – Educational Studies, 2012
This study examined the influence of integrative motivation, instrumental motivation and second language (L2) proficiency on socio-cultural/academic adaptation in a sample of two groups of international students studying Chinese in China. Results revealed that the non-Asian student group reported higher levels of integrative motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Asian International Students at an Australian University: Mapping the Paths between Integrative Motivation, Competence in L2 Communication, Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Persistence with Structural Equation Modelling
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Yu, Baohua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study examined the interrelationships of integrative motivation, competence in second language (L2) communication, sociocultural adaptation, academic adaptation and persistence of international students at an Australian university. Structural equation modelling demonstrated that the integrative motivation of international students has a…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
Motivational and Cultural Correlates of Second Language Acquisition: An Investigation of International Students in the Universities of the People's Republic of China
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Yu, Baohua; Watkins, David A. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2008
The present study investigates the relationships among motivational factors, cultural correlates and second language proficiency. The participants, from both Western and Asian backgrounds, were learning Chinese at university level in the People's Republic of China. 115 students (35 Western students and 80 Asian students) ranging from beginning to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Asians, Asian Culture