scholarly journals Migration and education: A narrative approach to the experience of foreign students in Portugal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosmin Ionut Nada ◽  
Helena Costa Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Substantial Growth ◽  
Student Enrolment ◽  
English Speaking

Non-English-speaking countries are attracting burgeoning numbers of foreign students, yet research regarding these students' experiences remains rather scarce. In line with global tendencies, Portuguese universities are seeing substantial growth in foreign student enrolment. This paper addresses the lived experiences of foreign students in the period following their arrival in a new cultural context, discussing the role that language and social support play in their adaptation. Rooted in a narrative approach, this paper is based on 41 indepth biographic interviews. The findings indicate that the ways in which students deal with the challenges of living and studying in a foreign country are highly diverse. Nevertheless, a universal aspect of their narratives is the central role assumed by social support. Although social support has beneficial outcomes for foreign students' adaptation, if provided inadequately it can lead to less positive outcomes and even to marginalization.

scholarly journals Does the Statue of Liberty Still Face Out? The Diversion of Foreign Students from the United States to Canada in the Post 9/11 Period

1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Entry Requirements ◽  
Student Enrolment ◽  
Large Decline

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have resulted in the increased scrutiny of both immigrants and non-immigrants entering the United States. The latter group includes students who enter the country on temporary visas to complete programs of higher education. Depending on the source, the number of foreign students in the United States has remained constant or fallen since 2001, and there has been a large decline among students from predominantly Muslim countries. Canada, by contrast, has relaxed its entry requirements for some foreign students and there has been a concerted effort among Canadian universities to increase foreign student enrolment. We find that the number of foreign students in Canada did increase following 9/11, especially those from predominantly Muslim countries. We discuss some of the implications of this increase in foreign students for Canadian universities and the Canadian labour market. Although these results support the hypothesis that changes in U.S. immigration policy are responsible, causality cannot be inferred from our data. This underlines the need for better data to adequately address the post-secondary education choices of international students.  

Internationalization Through NNES Student Recruitment

2021 ◽  
pp. 328-345
Author(s):  
Anouchka Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Student Recruitment ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Canadian Study ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Study Experience ◽  
English Speaking

It can be difficult to decipher the extent to which Canadian university internationalization efforts have been corralled to actualize mostly through non-native English speaking (NNES) foreign student recruitment. Although international surveys often report that an overwhelming majority of foreign students endorse Canada as a study destination and are satisfied with their Canadian study experience, the voices of students who experience a different reality are often overlooked. This chapter begins with an overview of internationalization values. The author then reviews the ways in which neoliberal ideology reshapes higher education as a good and places NNES foreign students as consumers in competition. Next, the foreign student recruitment is aligned with the internationalization rationales of generating revenue and migrating skills to benefit Canada's national economy. The reported realities of NNES foreign students are shared, followed by questions to springboard dialogue on identifying and mitigating gaps for NNES foreign student university study on Canadian campuses.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION TO THE TEACHING PROCESS ON DISCIPLINE “HYGIENE AND ECOLOGY” FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING SIX YEAR STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
L. V. Hryhorenko ◽  
V. M. Baibakov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Time Budget ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Independent Work

The article adduces the features of training English-speaking students of graduate courses in the departments of hygienic profile at the medical schools. It was established that the following issues remain difficult at the implementation of ecological education for English-speaking students in the departments of hygienic profile: adaptation of current national normative documents to the educational process;  application of international regulatory standards and recommendations of US EPA and WHO international organizations, if compared with domestic counterparts; at the teaching of lectures and practical classes, especially on ecological-dependent pathology, should be taking into account deontological, national and religious peculiarities of foreign students.  The results of the survey conducted among English-speaking six year students (36 students in total) showed that 40 to 60 % from total number of academic hours in the discipline should be assigned to independent work in a medical university, according to (25 and 19.4 %) respondents.  At the same time, the time budget for IWS preparation differs: for theoretical subjects, on average, a foreign student spends 1–2 hours (30.5 %), while less than 1 hour (22.2 %) preparation for clinical disciplines. Majority of English-speaking students (53 %) believe that the amount of time they spend preparing for classes depends on their interest in learning a particular discipline.  This is due to the complexity of this or that topic, as 55.5 % of respondents noted.  The other 30.8 % of foreigners do not think so, which indicates about low motivation this quota of senior students to study in Medical Higher Education Institutions, and requires more careful attention of teachers in creating interest in the study of hygiene disciplines.

Does Ego-Resilience Impact Friendship Outcomes?

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Lozano ◽  
Mahzad Hojjat ◽  
Judith Sims-Knight
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Ego Resilience ◽  
Maintenance Behaviors ◽  
Received Social Support ◽  
Trait Resilience ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The present study examined the relationship between resilience and positive outcomes in friendships of young adults. SEM and bootstrapping analyses were performed to test whether positive emotions mediate the relationship between ego-resilience and enhanced friendship outcomes. Findings revealed indirect effects for friendship closeness, maintenance behaviors, and received social support. Our findings demonstrate the importance of positive emotions and its connection with trait resilience in the realm of friendships.

Two Gambling Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Foreign Brides ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

Reality Negotiation

2009 ◽  
pp. 474-482
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Higgins ◽  
Matthew W. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Negotiation Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coping Processes

This chapter presents an overview of the development and status of the reality negotiation construct and relates it to a variety of coping processes. The reality negotiation construct follows from the social constructionist tradition and first appeared in discussions of how excuses protect self-images by decreasing the causal linkage to negative outcomes. The reality negotiation construct was later expanded to include a discussion of how the process of hoping may be used to increase perceived linkage to positive outcomes. In the two decades since these constructs were first introduced, four individual differences measures have been developed, and the effects of these reality negotiation techniques have been studied extensively. Reality negotiation techniques can be both maladaptive and adaptive and have been shown to be associated with coping and social support in a variety of populations. The chapter concludes by highlighting a few areas in which reality negotiation research could expand to further its relevance and applicability to the field of positive psychology.

scholarly journals Exploring intercultural competence through an intercultural extracurricular activity in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Kai Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Communication Difficulties

Abstract This study used interviews to explore how 10 Taiwanese college students' intercultural competence was developed after participating in an intercultural extracurricular activity designed with a purpose to facilitate foreign students’ study in Taiwan and to promote meaningful home-foreign student contacts. In-depth information and narratives from the interviews were collected as evidence of intercultural competence development. The results showed all the interviewees appreciated the experience and felt it to have been of value to them in terms of building international friendships, heightening their intercultural awareness and the benefits of intercultural competence, and having more appreciation and better understanding of Taiwanese culture. Students also realized that a lack of understanding of Taiwanese culture could exacerbate communication difficulties. Students thus became aware of the importance of describing Taiwanese cultural practices in English and realized that more language practice was necessary for smoother communication. Suggestions for both extracurricular activities and language programs improvement in the future were also provided in the conclusion.

THE READINESS OF KAMPUNG WISATA DANGEAN AS A RURAL TOURISM IN THE FOREIGN TOURIST'S PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Bayu Grendo Sigarete ◽  
Halim Ahmad ◽  
Ferita Nelindya Afriana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Boyolali district is identical with dairy. Dangean village is located in the District of Cepogo which is a milk producing center in Boyolali. The majority of Dangean people as dairy farmers. The efforts to diversify the community business are by packing the daily activities of residents as a breeder to serve as a tourist attraction in rural tourism. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The method that is used in this research is experiment. The sample determination is done by purposive method that is foreign student representing foreign tourists. The sample is 5 foreign students. The number of samples is determined by considering the readiness of the facilities currently available in Dangean. The results of research conducted by a team of researchers from Ambarrukmo Tourism institute (STIPRAM) Yogyakarta showed that the attractions and packaging tour packages are the factors that become the main preference tourists when traveling in Dangean. The main strengths of Dangean are the activity of attractiveness, the visual landscape of the area, and the package of tourism activities. While the weakness that is currently owned by Dangean is the low level of popularity, competitiveness, and service.Keywords: Dangean Village, Kampung Wisata, attractions, tour packages.

Social Support in Its Cultural Context

1996 ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson ◽  
Sheree Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Cultural Context

scholarly journals Difficulties faced by a foreign student during their first year of study at a Russian university in the Russian language

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
Alla A. Zhukovska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Real ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The article deals with the issue of the language adaptation of foreign students who have left the preparatory faculty and begun their studies in Russian in the first year of the main faculty of the Russian University. The main problem is the lack of knowledge of Russian by foreign students to understand and take notes at lectures, to actively participate in seminars. The article identifies and discusses the main difficulties faced by foreigners while studying in Russia and the reasons of their appearance, analyzes the conditions of training of foreign students at the preparatory faculty and the real results of this training, the main of which is the discrepancy between what foreign students know and are capable of and what they need to know and be able to, becoming the first-year students of a Russian University. Most first-year foreign students find it difficult to study at the same level with Russian students, so they need the support and understanding of not only teachers of Russian as a foreign language, but also teachers of other subjects. It is noted that teachers who don’t specialize in teaching Russian as a foreign language can’t and don’t want to adequately assess the level of knowledge of a foreign student and help them if needed. The article proposes a possible solution to this problem.

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