Advantages And Disadvantages Of Study Abroad And Self-Development

Study Abroad and Self-development Nowadays, an increasing number of students choose the way of study abroad to acquire knowledge and to complete their studies. Studying abroad has already become a very common phenomenon. On campus, we may see some students who are from the different countries, and we study and live together ,although we may have the different culture background. It seems to many people that study abroad provides a perfect platform to help students enhance their own abilities and exchange different culture to each other, but other people may think that study abroad also has some disadvantages, like it may make students feel lonely and homesick, and students may lose themselves in a different country. As a international students, I think study abroad is a beneficial behavior for self-development, because it is able to help us broaden our horizons and gain more professional knowledge to improve our abilities in all aspects. First of all, my first criterion is that some behaviors are able to help us set up and develop some specific goals, which behaviors are beneficial for our self-development. According to Manuel London and James W. Smither’s article “Empowered Self-development and Continuous Learning”, “Self-development means seeking and using feedback, setting development goals, engaging in developmental activities, and tracking progress on one 's own” (3). It means that setting and developing specific goals is an indispensable part in our process of self-development, So we are

A beneficial behavior for self-development should be able to help us enhance our own abilities. We know the self-development means that learn new some skills and improve our own abilities to realize our own value and accomplish our goals, so when some behaviors are able to improve our abilities, these behaviors are beneficial for