n the article “Exploring the exchange student’s global minds in a study abroad project” by John et al(2015), the authors present a research which aims to determine how the students improve themselves in the foreign environment and how they construct their global minds. Meanwhile in the article “Intercultural Communication as Revealed in Language Learning Histories” by Doman(2014), the author reveals the important factors which either hinder or enhance students’ English learning abilities. Throughout this paper, I will synthesize the two articles by the following ideas. Firstly motivation plays an important role in students’ international learning experience. Meanwhile, culture differences hinder students’ English learning process and sometimes
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Culture stereotypes are not only set on international students, in fact, the most common ones are set on the local American students. As mentioned in “Intercultural Communication as Revealed in Language Learning Histories” by Doman(2014), “Americans are too loud, I don’t like to talk to them.” Before coming to the states, I was implemented a stereotyped impression that American students mostly party all night and don’t care about their study as much as the Chinese students. Ironically, this has been proven to be so wrong as I actually entered and lived in Case western reserve university for a semester. Almost every student here studies very hard and cares, from my perspective, too much about their scores. I still remembered last Halloween when almost nobody dressed up due to the upcoming mid term exams. Instead of going to the parties, students, especially the local American students chose to work in the libraries. Ironically, it was the Chinese students who joined the most parties during the Halloween. Furthermore, in Chinese society, there is a widely spread conception that American students learned less during their high school so that Chinese students would always lead a step ahead while studying. However, what I found is that most American students have even stronger bases among many subjects and they are more creative most of the time. One of my friends spent a lot of time during his high school doing researches on biology and as a result, his understandings on bio is far ahead of
Culture stereotypes are not only set on international students, in fact, the most common ones are set on the local American students. As mentioned in “Intercultural Communication as Revealed in Language Learning Histories” by Doman(2014), “Americans are too loud, I don’t like to talk to them.” Before coming to the states, I was implemented a stereotyped impression that American students mostly party all night and don’t care about their study as much as the Chinese students. Ironically, this has been proven to be so wrong as I actually entered and lived in Case western reserve university for a semester. Almost every student here studies very hard and cares, from my perspective, too much about their scores. I still remembered last Halloween when almost nobody dressed up due to the upcoming mid term exams. Instead of going to the parties, students, especially the local American students chose to work in the libraries. Ironically, it was the Chinese students who joined the most parties during the Halloween. Furthermore, in Chinese society, there is a widely spread conception that American students learned less during their high school so that Chinese students would always lead a step ahead while studying. However, what I found is that most American students have even stronger bases among many subjects and they are more creative most of the time. One of my friends spent a lot of time during his high school doing researches on biology and as a result, his understandings on bio is far ahead of