EAP 4 A project: The internationals Student and culture shock by

104207070 — 2022-11-23 04:23:58 UTC

The topic that we will present and find out is international students with their culture shock, including EAP4 student at University Swinburne. Generally, the difficulties that international students have in getting used to new transport system, weather, lifestyle, accommodation… are the reason why we chose this topic to find out. We believe that the goal which we can achieve after discovering the problem is the answers for questions: “What do international students feel when they go study abroad at first time ? ” and “ How can they face and pass new challenges, particularly culture shock ”. Additionally, we think that culture shock can bring some disadvantages to they like new international student in Australian lack knowledge about how to take bus, train or face with the cold weather and so on. At the end of our survey, we are able not only to know the level of difficulties that they have in the first period but also get information about the method which they use to adapt to new life. Finally, we see that students who have never been far away from home will have culture shock which is stronger than those travelling for some times.

104207070 — 2022-11-23 04:24:49 UTC

1. Did you experience culture shock when you have arrived in Australia for the first time?

2. What kind of culture shock did you experience?

3. How did you feel about that?

4. Can you tell me about the main differences between Australia and your country?

5. Why do you think that the culture shock happened to you?

6. How do you deal with culture shock? (What method do you use to overcome it?)

7. What do you think is the most challenging thing about culture shock?

8. Did you overcome culture shock by yourself or with some one else's help?

9. How long did it take to get used to the new life in Australia?

10. Do you like living in Australia now or not?

Phuoc Thanh Le

104207070 — 2022-12-02 04:28:31 UTC

According to the first graph, 58% of survey respondents said that they were surprised by the cold weather here in Melbourne. Not only that, 17% of survey participants were shocked by the fact that there are alternative forms of work, such as working from home. Additionally, the variety of foods surprised and excited 17% of international students in the survey.
The second graph presents data about how international students can overcome culture shock, we can see that 25% of survey respondents changed their thinking to adapt to new life in Melbourne while 75% of them chose to change their lifestyles to get used to Australia.

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pepperxijue — 2022-12-02 04:40:07 UTC

In this chart, you can see that everyone has different ways to alleviate culture shock, and most of them get through culture shock by themselves.Eight of them dealt with culture shock on their own

Phuoc Thanh Le

104207070 — 2022-12-02 04:57:18 UTC

In the survey, 25% of participants found it difficult to get used to the way that native Australians communicate with international students while 58% of them said that it was very challenging to live with cold weather in Melbourne. Additionally, 17% of international students who did the survey spent time to develop new habits

beenpornkanok — 2022-12-02 08:05:35 UTC

Our survey included 13 questions. In this section, we will analyze and describe the result of the survey. Firstly, we collected information from 12 interviewees in terms of gender, age and nationalities. 50% of our respondents were female and 50% were male. Furthermore, over half of our interviewees are between 22-25 years old. 20% were 19-21, 10% were aged 25-30 and only 10% were over 30.

beenpornkanok — 2022-12-02 08:09:36 UTC

The pie graph shows the number of students who experienced culture shock. The majority of respondents experienced culture shock when they arrived in Australia for the first time whereas a small number of interviewees did not. This result did not surprise us. We believe that it is normal for students who move to a new country have need time to adjust to their new environment and culture which is not familiar to them.

The pie chart presents the information about the variety of reasons why people have culture shock. Following the survey, 67% of survey participants said that they were surprised by the cool weather when they have arrived at Australia for the first time. Additionally, the percentage of situation that international students in the survey were shocked by the timeline of Australia in the first time is 17% and maybe because they did not change their timetables and clocks. Finally, the rates of cases that international students had difficulty in using international language and the fact that people consume coffee too much in work have the same data, at about 8%.

The pie graph shows how the surveyed EAP students feel when they experienced culture shock. 33% experienced unhappiness, 17% felt either nothing or were surprised. 17% felt good but 17% also inconvenienced by their experience in culture shock in Australia. Overall, it is clear that unhappiness (33%) was the strongest emotion felt by students. Because they have to adjust when they move to new environment.

beenpornkanok — 2022-12-06 03:00:08 UTC

According to the result of our survey, most international students who move to study abroad for the first time encounter new environments and experience the challenge of culture shock. We wanted to find out more about why so many interviewees experience culture shock. The results show that many respondents do in fact experience culture shock. It is particularly true that Melbourne has very changeable weather from one day to the next and sometimes four seasons in one day. There are many different cultures, the different time zone, and lifestyles which differ from their home countries. It is obvious that culture shock occurs for foreign students and refugees (Dodge, 1990). In addition, the most popular answer to this kind of culture shock was the weather. Moreover, most respondents were unhappy due to many new things that are not familiar to them and they felt it was tough to adapt to living in Melbourne. However, other interviewees felt good, inconvenienced, surprised and nothing. Rhinesmith (1985) claims culture shock derives from both the challenge of new cultural surroundings and from the loss of a familiar cultural environment. Therefore, a normal consequence of living in and adjusting to a new culture is the experience of stress caused by a physiological factor, which in turn increases feelings of stress, anxiety, depression and uneasiness (Kohls, 1979). It can be clearly seen that culture shock influences how someone feels.

beenpornkanok — 2022-12-06 03:29:59 UTC

Therefore, if oversea students intend to study abroad, it is recommended that they should get used to new culture and try to find the advantages of adaptation. It will make them happier and prevent international exchange students from having troubles in the future. In addition, they can have chances to change their habits and improve their strong points, strengths when they get more new knowledge from new culture adaption. Eventually, culture shock is not a negative emotion because it is a factor help people learn more something new about culture in other countries so international students don't need to be afraid or worried when they have it.

beenpornkanok — 2022-12-08 03:26:35 UTC

Dodge, S 1990, ‘Culture shock and alienation remain problems for many foreign students on U.S.campuses’, The Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. 33-36.
Kohls, R 1984, Intercultural training: Don’t leave home without it, Washing-ton DC.
Rhinesmith, S 1985, Bringing home the world: Walsh & Co, New York.
Winkelman, J 1994, Culture Shock and Adaptation, ResearchGate, viewed 7 December 2022,
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