A Research Article Written By Richard Hartshorne And Jennifer Baucom

In the article, “Colleges Adapt to New Kinds of Students from Abroad,” Karin Fischer (2011) explains the increase of foreign students in U.S. universities leads to make more problems in campus and how universities are trying to overcome those problems and help foreign students to adapt to campus. Fischer explains the increase of the foreign undergraduate students due to the support from foreign governments. Fischer quotes Wesley Young, the director of services for international students and scholars at the University of California at Davis, to discuss that the increase of foreign undergraduate students especially requires more care and help than graduate students. While older students know what they need to do and what to do in U.S. university,

Living and studying in another country has never been easy for everyone, and it happens to me too. There are many things for me to adapt to, such as language, culture, food, lifestyle…

The need for higher education has prompted many students to seek further studies in international colleges outside their countries and Australia has become an academic hub for international students who mostly come from developing nations in Asia and Africa. The students, once they secure a place in this schools, they are subjected to a new environment which comes with different challenges. International students in Australia have become an integral part of the society both social and economical. However the students face a myriad of challenges before fully adopting to the new learning culture. In

They have to face new experience and new challenges in their life when they come to abroad. The first year of their college abroad is a litmus test for them, if they have a positive experience they will stay but if they have negative experience they have to leave. I had observed the issues faced by the international students over here as they make their entry to new culture and a new educational system. They have to begin a new life in an environment that is very different. For example simple tasks such as going to grocery store where the language is different and the products are unfamiliar. The education system in India and Canada is different as in India, more focus is on memorization and there is no practical work but over here, more focus is on problem-solving skills and self-guided research. Majority of the students live without their family which is very hard for them to live without parents in abroad. Their parents sent them over here with a hope of their family

As an international student, it is often very hard for people from different culture to fit into another culture and get adapted to how the new culture works. Something that I have significantly

As the widespread population of teenage international student body growth, many more promising and upstanding students came to America to develop their better selves. When the first year they come, the very different environment would be a challenge for this young generation of student who just left the protection of their parents and familiar teachers and friends. The adjustment of academic will be a fundamentally challenging for them in many different aspects.

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One of the most obvious difficulties for an international student is culture shock. Culture shock is the result of moving from an environment that is familiar to one that is not. Adjusting to new food, people, environment and

As an international student, it is critical to consider schools which are friendly towards persons who may not share the same culture as the major population of the student body. Having lived and thrived in a culture so different from my own for sometime, I have learned that for the most part, people are a lot welcoming to my culture when I do not try to hide from it but rather, offer my different perceptions and opinions about the questions I am being asked.

When international students study for the first time at a university in the United States, the first challenge almost is study. For instance, students’ communication and writing skills, the grades in each class and so on. When the student decided to study abroad, parents place great hopes on the students. Almost international students were having a bit afraid to talk with native speaker, when they first time at the university in the United States. Also, international students could not write really like the native students writing. At the same time, students must want to get a good grade in each class, but different countries have different education system.

However, the change from home to college can be difficult for international students (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). While some international students find it easy to adjust to the transition, others international students find it challenging to adjust to the transition (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). Studies show that international students experience many challenges as a result of language and cultural barriers, academic difficulties, financial difficulties, medical issues, housing concerns, food differences, alienation, homesickness, lack of social support system, racial discrimination, and cross-cultural loss) (Akanwa, 2015; Guzman et al., 2015; Mesidor & Sly, 2016; Sherry et al., 2010; Smith & Khawaja, 2011; Tung, 2011; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). According to Prieto-Welch (2016), international students as a group are regarded as a main minority population in campuses

Moreover, the survey suggests that the reason why international students stay together is because they have different cultural values from Americans. In her blog “The Truth: Americans Reveal What They Really Think of International Students,” Jessica Stahl, who works for Voice of America, reports from an American student's answer that “There's always a group of two or more in my classes and they rarely try to talk to us...” Christine from Texas A&M University answers “I sometimes do not share the same values or norms as international students do, nor the same culture.” This reveals one important point, which is that because of not sharing the same values and culture, it is very hard for international and American students to bridge the communication gap between them. Furthermore, it is not only Americans that think so, but also international students. One international student answers in the blog that “Most of the international students in my social environment are from Asian countries and thus they are brought up in a similar culture to me and I find it easier to communicate with them not because we have similar ideas but we are used to live our lives in a more similar way compared to Americans.” (“The Truth: Americans”). Thus,

Coming to the US as an international female student is a highly exciting and, at times, challenging learning opportunity. However, international students often arrive with quite personal goals and tend to feel somewhat limited in their brand-new educational surroundings. Accordingly, Dongxiao Qin has interviewed several international female students that study in the US, and asked them what advice they would offer prospective students who would find themselves in their situation if they wanted to come and study here.

Based on their research, Glass & Westmont (2014) built a hypothesis that describes a positive effect between taking cross-cultural classes and a sense of belongingness for both international and domestic students. They gleaned the date and necessary sample covered both international and domestic students collected from eight research universities provided from Global Perspective Inventory (GPI) from 2010 to 2012 (Glass & Westmont, 2014). Although they make an assumption logistically based on strict inference, their assumptions are not supposed by their statistical test model. The result of the test of hypothesis indicated that there is no distinctively relevant relationship between participating in intercultural courses and a sense of Belongingness

International students face many different challenges when studying abroad. This is due to many factors. First, they are living in a country very far away from their own. The country they are studying at has a very different way of life than theirs. Further more, the laws in that country are much different than the laws in their own country. Due to that they face a lot of problems trying to adapt to this new culture. Me personally as an international student in the US studying at ASU, have faced three particularly difficult challenges that I was able to overcome through time. In this essay I will explain how international students can overcome tough challenges and situations.