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Fang, Gao; Chun, Lai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The literature on acculturation illustrates that a bulk of non-dominant ethnocultural minorities consider themselves bicultural, involving both dominant and ethnic cultures. Yet, little is known about how bicultural individuals perceive and construct dual cultures, and how their two cultural identities are played out in daily interactions. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, School Segregation, Acculturation
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Bek, Hafiz – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this study is to determine the cultural and psycho-social problems experienced by students of Afghanistan citizenship studying at different faculties of a university in Turkey. With this purpose, human affairs were examined under the titles of accommodation and food, clothing, psychological and social affairs. The sample of the…
Descriptors: Food, Clothing, College Students, Foreign Students
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Uyar, Yusuf – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
After the civil war and the terrorist threat experienced in Syria and Iraq recently, school-age children of the families who were forced to migrate to Turkey have gradually begun to be incorporated into Turkish education system. Although the engagement is few in number now, it will increase within the next years in line with the planning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Literacy Education, Student Diversity
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Thorjussen, Ingfrid Mattingsdal; Sisjord, Mari Kristin – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
As western countries have become increasingly diverse, education is often emphasized as one of the most important arenas for social integration. However, research within physical education over the past decades has highlighted how students with non-western backgrounds experience processes of 'othering', exclusion, and marginalization in the…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ethnicity
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Wang, Qingchun; Leen, Steffanie; Hannes, Karin – Journal of International Students, 2018
Millions of tertiary international students are studying abroad, and the number of exchange students continues to increase. We explored experiences of South American students studying in a non-Anglophone context. A photo elicitation methodology was applied to support data collection. Five participants were asked to visualize their challenges in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Latin Americans, Student Adjustment, Cultural Differences
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Zerengok, Devrim; Guzel, Pinar; Ozbey, Selhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
International students, often a noteworthy group, constitute about 10 per cent of the student population on many campuses throughout the world (OECD, 2009). At any time, there are likely to be over a million students and scholars attending institutions of higher learning abroad, and recent estimates have set the figure at about 4.5 million…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, College Students
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Yao, Christina W. – Journal of International Students, 2016
Findings from this study indicate that more attention must be given to Chinese students' interpersonal relationships with domestic students, particularly when considering the role of daily cross-cultural interactions in residential living. Participants who wanted American roommates anticipated an easier transition to U.S. culture. However, making…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Interpersonal Relationship
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Adewale, Titilola; D'Amico, Mark M.; Salas, Spencer – Journal of International Students, 2018
With benefits international students bring to campus, universities have adopted aggressive recruitment practices and increased institutional support for their retention and positive college engagement (Hegarty, 2014). Due to globalization, increasing numbers of international students enter college with multiple cultural/national affiliations…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Differences
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Yan, Lu; Pei, Shaohua – Journal of International Students, 2018
International students attending American universities often receive confusing messages: on one hand, for their contribution to the U.S. economy and fostering of domestic students' multicultural awareness; on the other, they are often targets of hostility and bias on and off campus. This qualitative phenomenological study examined 12 international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes
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Jin, Tinghe – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This paper reports on a study of the identity perceptions of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mandarin at UK universities. Interviews with 26 students were conducted over a three-year period, most of whom were multilingual. Approximately half spoke English as an additional language. The remainder were native speakers of English. The…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Self Concept
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Rezaei, Saeed; Naghibian, Mehrdad – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
This study investigated the role of literary texts in the development of Iranian English language learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). To fulfill this general objective, an intercultural syllabus was designed for a fourteen-session course of American English short story at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Theoretically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Wilcox, Kelly P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the career decision-making process for college-aged Third Culture Kids at an elite university in an urban setting in the United States. This qualitative study engaged students (sophomores, juniors and seniors) and recent graduates from a range of passport cultures (U.S and non-U.S.) in individual semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Career Choice, Cultural Background, College Students
McConaughy, Stephanie H.; Whitcomb, Sara A. – Guilford Press, 2021
Widely recognized as an authoritative resource, this book has been revised and updated with the latest research and techniques, including new material on telehealth services. Guidelines are provided for conducting thorough, developmentally informed interviews with K-12 students--and their parents and teachers--for multimethod assessment and…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Health Services, Intervention, Kindergarten
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Abu Rabia, Hazza M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The adjustment process and issues of 16 Arab international students enrolled at two universities in the Northeast of the United States were examined through this qualitative, exploratory study. The participants were from Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates and had been in the US for 2 to 5 years. In-depth…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, Arabs
Kim, Hyein Amber – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Despite the increasing biracial and multiracial population in the United States, there are few studies on the identity development of people with racially mixed backgrounds. This study examines eleven biracial Korean American university students using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. In particular, it…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Korean Americans, College Students, Student Attitudes
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