According to Andrad (2006) in her article “ International students in English - speaking universities “ students face many adjustment issues during the first year at English speaking universities.Andrad defines the adjustment issues in the article as the difficulties and challenges that international students face in their daily life in order to get used to the new life. There are two kinds of the adjustment issues. The first one is social adjustments which is related to whatever terms community and the second one is academic adjustments that is related to universitis life.
As mentioned in the article “ International students in English speaking universities” some social issues that international students face are making friends , adopting language , culture and feeling homesick so it is hard for them to make friends due to the differences in language and culture. In addition international students feel homesick almost of the time because they are studying in a foreign country far away from their families and their friends.They have lake of social relationships since they are dealing with new culture
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Universities should provide special events or welcome parties for the international students to let them know each other and to give them the chance to make new friends but on the other hand it is up to students if they want to participate in these events or not . International students also should take part of the students organizations that universities provide to show their talents.As an international students having good background about the culture that you are going to be part of can be a helpul way for them to adapt with the new
they can improve students’ performance. It’s a well known the fact that this difficulty was realized years ago but now as the educational demands are increasing, this problem has
lack TESOL training, they are not inclined to help their less proficient students improve their academic literacy (Lipp & Jones, 2011). In addition to international students, another group of students who are at risk of academic unpreparedness is that of US-educated second-language learners. Rumbaut and Ima first drew attention to these learners in 1988, coining the term Generation 1.5 to refer to them, describing these students as having English as a second language and who completed their compulsory
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presence in students pursuing higher education is what’s really alarming. According to Brook & Willoughby (2015), “…prevalence rates of social anxiety in university/college students range from 10 to 33% as compared to 7 to 13% in the general population” (p. 1139). There is clearly a greater chance that students at the university level will experience social anxiety, compared to the rest of the population. The real problem though is not its prevalence, but the effects it has on university students. Social
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