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The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence, sociological and psychological institutions throughout the country have published numerous research papers discussing this and related topics.
The findings from the interviews were very helpful. The data gathered gave me a sense of which specific issues the research …show more content…
So it is important for the research paper to focus on the identity development process of cultural adjustment. A study by Eunyong Kim (2012), showed that international students go through an identity development process, unique to international students, while adjusting to the campus culture of USA. The researcher based her study on interviews conducted with international undergraduate students from a large public institute in Midwest. The research explored the process of how an international student’s distinct identity is developed. The research’s result showed the existence of a process involving the following steps: pre-exposure, exposure, enclosure, emergence, integration, and …show more content…
Homesickness maybe the most common of such hindrances. All the interviewees showed evidence that they miss the cultures that they came from. A research by Karin Tochnov, Lisa Levine and Amritha Sanaka (2010) showed statistical evidence that international students from India had a very different experience of homesickness then the students from USA. The result of the study unsurprisingly showed that Indian students suffer from homesickness more than American students, but the paper also has some interesting findings. The statistics show that Indian students who spent more time in the United States suffer from homesickness more than those who have been here for a smaller period of time, but students who have accumulated more credit hours will feel less homesick than those who have less credit hours. This study can contribute directly to my research paper because three of the four people interviewed by me are originally from South
The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence, sociological and psychological institutions throughout the country have published numerous research papers discussing this and related topics.
The findings from the interviews were very helpful. The data gathered gave me a sense of which specific issues the research …show more content…
So it is important for the research paper to focus on the identity development process of cultural adjustment. A study by Eunyong Kim (2012), showed that international students go through an identity development process, unique to international students, while adjusting to the campus culture of USA. The researcher based her study on interviews conducted with international undergraduate students from a large public institute in Midwest. The research explored the process of how an international student’s distinct identity is developed. The research’s result showed the existence of a process involving the following steps: pre-exposure, exposure, enclosure, emergence, integration, and …show more content…
Homesickness maybe the most common of such hindrances. All the interviewees showed evidence that they miss the cultures that they came from. A research by Karin Tochnov, Lisa Levine and Amritha Sanaka (2010) showed statistical evidence that international students from India had a very different experience of homesickness then the students from USA. The result of the study unsurprisingly showed that Indian students suffer from homesickness more than American students, but the paper also has some interesting findings. The statistics show that Indian students who spent more time in the United States suffer from homesickness more than those who have been here for a smaller period of time, but students who have accumulated more credit hours will feel less homesick than those who have less credit hours. This study can contribute directly to my research paper because three of the four people interviewed by me are originally from South