Challenging Cultures? Student Conceptions of 'Belonging' and 'Isolation'

Students deal with a sense of confusion in some university practices such as a comparison of lectures and tutorials. Furthermore, the concept of "independent learners" shocked the students because the lecturers did not provide adequate supervision over schools and universities. Furthermore, being unaccustomed to academic culture is enhancing students' awareness of 'isolation'. Therefore, the choice of "new" university did not mean "not traditional" students to "belong" to the university altogether.

For most foreign students, enrolling in universities and colleges in the United States is an overwhelming change in life and culture. Many studies have explored the challenges and obstacles facing international students attending higher education institutions in the United States. These difficulties include language difficulties, difficulties adapting to academic culture, misunderstandings of communication with teachers and peers, and complexity, stress, anxiety, isolation, social experience, cultural shock, economic difficulty, appropriate Lack of consideration, isolation and loneliness And any adaptation in everyday life

Experience point (Wu, Garza, & Guzman, 2015). Faced with the problem that foreign students, especially learning culture, are very different from the organizer's culture. Difficult adaptation to unfamiliar teaching methods, active participation in communication activities, conflicting Chinese students studying abroad, such as inconsistency between teacher and student's recognized role (eg Wu and Ha) Academic problems and difficulties have been solved. 2011 month month; 2005 Xiong). When Chinese students lose their familiar culture in the new educational environment, researchers also report on the various psychological effects of cultural change between them, such as confusion, anxiety, helplessness (Tian & Lowe, 2013 Such). Long-term travelers will encounter more challenges, conflicts, and adjustment process changes than short-term travelers (Sobre - Denton & Hart, 2008).