1. Introduction The economy of China has undergone a significant development since joining the World Trade Organisational on December 11, 2001. A vast number of students are able to study abroad, because their families’ income continues increasing. Under this background, Qinggang Wang (2011), who was an associate professor, studied a project “Chinese students’ satisfaction of the study abroad experience”, with his partner Ross Taplin (2011) who was an accredited statistician and Alistair M. Brown (2011) who was an associate editor. Through this research, the theoretical support was provided to people who would like to know how to promote the students’ satisfaction. Therefore, this research paper evaluated the satisfaction of mainland …show more content…
In order to acquire more useful results, researchers used a quantitative technique that inviting a vast number of students to complete this short survey (Wang, Taplin and Brown 2011). 4. Weaknesses However, some problems were appeared in this research with the new theoretical hypothesis provided. There were four aspects. To start with, it was inappropriate to choose the factors on the basic of social learning theory. Social learning theory discussed the interaction between the individual cognition, individual behaviour and environment factors, and influencing human behaviour from the interaction between these three factors (Ormrod 1999). This theory focused on the learning that occurs within a social context mainly. A social context was made of a vast number of factors. However, in this research, researchers only chose two factors as social factors to assess this programme, such as culture and technical teaching (Wang, Taplin and Brown 2011). Researchers could link between the research and theories carefully. Moreover, it was one-sided to use these factors (preparation, culture and technical teaching) as the factors of affecting the satisfaction of students who studied abroad. For example, previous analysis always focused on the factors from some aspects, such as accommodation, safety, education, social, technology, economic factors and image (Arambewela and Hall 2009). Therefore, in my opinion, researchers
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This project is based on the decision-making by international students who come to Canada for higher studies. It looks very exciting when migrating to Canada but in reality the situation is totally different. It needs lots of planning and compromises before moving from home country. Also, it is a great opportunity of personal growth as studying in a developed country and dealing in our day-to day activities teach us a lot regarding various aspects. Since financial, cultural and psychological aspects are involved, we discussed some analytical tools which helps people to make decision to study abroad.
Social learning plays a role in education by focusing less on reward and punishment, motivation is not enough for a student to learn a skill or gain knowledge (Kretchmar, 2017).
Social learning theory, developed by Bandura, discusses how people learn from one another through observation, modeling, and imitation bridging an individual’s attention, memory and motivation. Social learning theory identifies the importance of cognition, observable behavior, individual self-efficacy, and the extent of how the events surrounding an individual affect them; their locus of control. Social learning theory also looks at individual problem behavior being influenced by positive or negative reinforcement (Ashford & LeCroy, 2012).
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The learning theory selected for this essay is the social learning theory proposed by Albert Bandura during the 1960s. The theory was influential in explaining how learning takes place in a social environment. This theory helped to emphasize the role of the social environment in the learning process. According to the social learning theory, an individual learns through the influences of the environment on the mind. The sense impressions from the environment are instrumental in shaping perceptions and connections that promote
“Social learning theories focus on the effects of thought on action and action on thought” (Slavin, 2014). Social learning theories incorporates four observational phases, which are attentional phase, retention phase, reproduction and motivational phase. These four stages make up
In the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare, Othello is defined as a person who faces colliding cultures and all this makes him question his own identity which reduces him to nothing and snatches everything from him. Othello is demonstrated as a black guy in the play and was called as Moor. Moors, at that time were assumed to be wild, Muslims, pervert and uncivilized people by the Venetian society but despite of these differences, Othello is treated as a hero by the Senate and his soldiers. He fulfills all the duties and responsibilities which whites are supposed to do and his efforts and success makes him their leader. The sacrifices he made helps him to earn all the respect he has got from the white society. The marriage of Othello and Desdemona is an interracial
In this essay, I will try to evaluate Social learning theory as originated by Albert Bandura. I am going to use three pieces of evidence, in a form of case studies, which have been done previously to support or contradict Bandura’s theory. I will demonstrate my knowledge of these studies throughout their analysis, trying to highlight their strengths and limitations.
This campus mainly offers career based courses which are Business, hospitality and NZ diplomas. We are performing a research in order to enrich the overall performance of international student in Auckland campus regarding their issues which they generally face in respect of accommodation, new culture, stress, communication, teaching methods, medical conditions that highly effect their academic performance.
“In 2006 to 2007, according to the data compiled by the Institute of International Education, 582,984 students from all over the world were enrolled in American colleges and universities in a wide range of fields” (Carter, Paragraph 2, 2008). The United States has the highest number of students who are coming to study abroad than any other countries. Each year, the number of international students coming to the United States to obtain degrees is increasing by thousands, and home countries of these students are primarily India, China and Korea, all located in the whole different continent. But what are the motives of students who are crossing the sea to study? Their goal of studying abroad is to experience diversity and to adapt attitudes
Learning is the process of gaining knowledge about various issues that affects our lives and wellbeing. The learning takes place each and every day of our lives at any place and time. There are two ways in which learning takes place. There is the formal learning and informal learning. In most cases, the formal learning is got from various learning institutions which indeed have set rules and regulations on how the running takes place. Various tests are set to help in gauging whether the student is ready for the next learning sequence or not. Institutions therefore has a bigger influence on formal learning and development of these students. On the account of the informal learning, this takes place within our social context. This form of learning is based on the societal norms and beliefs of various communities across the world. The teaching of the culture and norms that any society holds dear are indeed made possible through informal learning. Here, there is no need for a classroom which would mean that they can be done any place either a house, under a tree or as people interact in the societal setting. This paper looks into the impacts that the societal and institution constraints have on learning processes of various individuals. It gives much attention to the factual connotations of how these two sets of learning have impacted on the growth and development of various students across the world. Notably, this research uses the connotations from two articles that dwells on
Education is a never-ending learning process that has always been a piece of our life. As education is a building block in our lives, we are eager to put profoundly into our education. Good education will lead us to the bright future. With the fast advancement of public opinion, we have entered an era of information explosion which the necessity of studying abroad has turned into a developing pattern among youth. Most of the students feel that studying abroad is better than studying in local universities. As the saying goes, “the grass always looks greener on the other side of fence.” In this way, I believe that considering abroad have extraordinary points of benefits.
Furthermore, there are several variables or student information that will take some time to analyse which are, Information on why they want to study overseas and Other data points related to their attitude to international education. It is because; the response of the student for this information can be very subjective and quite troublesome to quantify or to group it.
With the development of economy of China, the tendency for students to study abroad increases every year. According to a report of the Institute of International Education, there are 229,300 Chinese students who chose to study abroad in 2010. That data means people who went to study abroad exceed 30 percentages than the previous year. (Lin 1) A statistics showed Chinese spent 10 billion CNY, which equals about 1.5 billion dollars on study abroad every year. What makes people curious is that students who study as high school students or undergraduate students occupied a huge part. This phenomenon is totally different from ten years ago. Before that time, most of students who study abroad