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Direct linkJing Zhou – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study examined the impact of extensive reading (ER) on Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) among advanced-level Chinese EFL learners, the interplay between reading enjoyment and material difficulty, and the challenges and strategies related to online ER. The following research questions are addressed: (a) what are the effects of a semester-long…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textAlharbi, Eman S.; Smith, Andrew P. – International Education Studies, 2018
This review aims to address the major sources of stress experienced by international students, the role of individual differences, the chronology of their stress levels and wellbeing over time, and gaps in the existing literature. Two electronic databases (PubMed and Psych Info) were searched for English peer-reviewed articles using eight search…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Well Being, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Cameron, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Most students, be they domestic or international, experience social and psychological concerns when undertaking their post-secondary education. The literature regarding student mental health in Canada has thus far focused primarily on students as a single homogenous group, although there has been recent consideration of discrete populations such…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Psychological Patterns, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Banjong, Delphine N. – Journal of International Students, 2015
This article investigates international students' challenges, such as financial, English proficiency, loneliness/homesickness in the United States. In addition, it assesses how these students coped with such difficulties by making use of resources on campus, such as an international center, writing center, counseling center, and the student…
Descriptors: Campuses, Educational Resources, Investigations, Foreign Students
An, Ran; Chiang, Shiao-Yun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This article examines international students' cultural adaptation at a major national university in China. A survey was designed to measure international students' adaptation to the Chinese sociocultural and educational environments in terms of five dimensions: (1) cultural empathy, (2) open-mindedness, (3) emotional stability, (4) social…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Acculturation, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCross, Susan E. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995
Examined differences in the independent and interdependent self-construals of 79 American and 71 East Asian graduate students studying in the United States and the influence of these self-construals on coping and stress. Self-construals and direct coping were the strongest predictors of stress for East Asian students, but were not predictive of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Coping, Culture Conflict
