Alina Schartner, Tony Johnstone Young

Intercultural Transitions in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

International Student Adjustment and Adaptation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Universities are among the most dynamic contemporary arenas for intercultural contact, and one of the most interesting phenomena for social interaction studies, both conceptually and empirically. There are around four million people worldwide studying abroad, with numbers growing. These international student sojourns are, first and foremost, social experiences, with social interaction being both a success factor for and outcome of intercultural transition. But what's it like being an 'international' student? How is the experience different from studying 'at home', and what might make it a success, or otherwise? This volume details how recent research has attempted to answer these questions and others related to the transition between different national learning environments, and shows how it is helping to inform debates, policy and practice on the international student experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474431248
• Artikelnr.: 72420743

Autorenporträt

Alina Schartner is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Science at Newcastle University. Tony Young is Reader in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Newcastle University in the north of England

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part A
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The current state of knowledge about the 'international student
experience'
Chapter 3: Methodology
Part B
Chapter 4: Academic adjustment and adaptation
Chapter 5: Psychological adjustment and adaptation
Chapter 6: Sociocultural adjustment and adaptation
Chapter 7: Associations between adjustment domains
Chapter 8: Retrospectives on the international student experience
Part C
Chapter 9: Conclusions
Chapter 10: Implications