Becoming Interculturally Adaptable

Author:

Rao Xiaofei1ORCID,Kew Kristin2,Hernández Anita2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. East China University of Science and Technology, China

2. New Mexico State University, USA

Abstract

The prevailing picture of intercultural adaptation among international student sojourners features a reified process of overcoming culture shock or culture-related stress and anxiety. In the context of increasing recruitment of Chinese students by German higher education institutions, there has been a growing interest in understanding Chinese students' intercultural adaptation experiences, and in exploring approaches that can be adopted by Chinese and German higher education to support these sojourners' learning experience. Drawing on a six-month mixed-methods study of 84 Chinese students attending German universities, researchers explored their intercultural experience regarding psychological, sociocultural, and educational aspects to university life. The challenges faced by these students are discussed in terms of psychological, sociocultural, and educational adaptations.

Publisher

IGI Global

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