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Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Sadoudi, Yasmine; Holliday, Adrian – London Review of Education, 2023
The PhD students in this study create a sense of being at home as part of their own way of being themselves. Their programme requires and allows considerable autonomy in how they choose to be with the people around them. Different to common expectations of the 'international student', their nationality and its 'culture' being apart from the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Cultural Influences
Juan David Gutierrez Hincapie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study explores the transition experiences of multilingual Asian immigrant students as they navigate their first year of college. Focusing on counterstories, this study seeks to shed light on the unique challenges, strategies, and successes of these students in crossing cultural, linguistic, and academic borders. Through a qualitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Asian American Students, Immigrants
Wilczewski, Michal; Alon, Ilan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This article systematically reviews the literature (313 articles) on language and communication in international students' cross-cultural adaptation in institutions of higher education for 1994-2021. We used bibliometric analysis to identify the most impactful journals and articles, and the intellectual structure of the field. We used content…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Student Adjustment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Qiong Bai; Benjamin H. Nam; Alexander Scott English – Educational Review, 2024
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English, Native Language, Language Attitudes
Morel-Lab, Anne – Research-publishing.net, 2022
According to the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), since 2016 many French universities have set up French language teaching programmes for refugees and people with subsidiary protection to respond to their need of linguistic support in French before starting or resuming their higher education studies. Welcoming such students however…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ruoyi Qiu; Martina Schiavo; Joellen E. Coryell – Journal of International Students, 2024
This cross-border narrative analyzes the intercultural perspectives of two doctoral students, one Chinese and the other Italian, who are international doctoral students conducting research in the United States. The first author is doing a doctorate in education in international adult and higher education, while the second author is undertaking a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Abdulmohsen H. Alomran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation study examines the acculturation experiences of Saudi Arabian students pursuing higher education in the United States. It investigates the relationships among students' acculturation strategies, self-assertion, and academic self-efficacy, while exploring the moderating effects of English proficiency and length of stay. The study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Acculturation
Dolapcioglu, Sevda; Bolat, Yeliz – Research in Education, 2021
When the civil war broke out in March 2011 in Syria, Syrian citizens fleeing the war began to emigrate from their country to Turkey, which led to several decisions regarding Turkey's educational policy. One such decision was to ensure that these immigrants continued their education in temporary educational centers in areas where they resided or in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Refugees, Educational Policy
Biying Wu; Jindong Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Quantitative research on the linguistic acculturation of sojourners in non-Western and multilingual social contexts remains scarce. Revising the Framework of Acculturation Variables (FAV), we propose a parsimonious model exploring the effect of acculturation conditions (trilingual language usage and perceived discrimination), orientations (social…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Foreign Students, Well Being, Acculturation
Sylvie Didou Aupetit; Juan José Ramírez Bonilla – Higher Education Forum, 2024
Our principal objective is to explore if interculturality is relevant for the success of a bilateral student mobility program, Mexico-Japan Technical and Academic Exchange Program (MJTAEP). First, the authors explain their methodology and objectives of field work. Second, they situate their analysis within a framework of growing academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, Program Descriptions
Schotte, Kristin; Rjosk, Camilla; Edele, Aileen; Hachfeld, Axinja; Stanat, Petra – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Based on two large-scale studies from Germany, we examined how different types of teachers' cultural beliefs are related to immigrant students' school adaptation. Specifically, we investigated the relationship of teachers' multicultural beliefs appreciating cultural diversity, their egalitarian beliefs focusing on all students' similarities and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Immigrants, Student Adjustment
Moussa, Nahla Mohamed – Qualitative Research Journal, 2021
Purpose: As there are many Arab students seek to earn an international degree, this research article aims to explore the factors that influence Arab students' adaptation to the foreign cross-culture of the USA and how it is related to their academic achievement. Exploring these factors will introduce different insights into the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad
Lee, Chia-Wen; Wu, Weidong; Tan, Zhi-Yu; Yang, Cheng-Fu – Education Sciences, 2020
Education research is increasingly paying attention to students' cross-cultural adaption in Mainland China. As a special administrative region of China, educational systems and language of instruction of Macao are different from those of Mainland China. This study analyzes the cross-cultural adaptation of Macao students in Mainland China by using…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Student Adjustment, Mandarin Chinese, Student Attitudes
Lu, Luke – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore's majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors)…
Descriptors: Race, Advantaged, Self Determination, High Achievement