Becoming Interculturally Adaptable: Chinese Student Sojourners Attending German Universities

Xiaofei Rao, Kristin Kew, Anita Hernández

Source Title: Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities

ISBN13: 9781799834489|ISBN10: 1799834484|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799834496|EISBN13: 9781799834502

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3448-9.ch003

MLA

Rao, Xiaofei, et al. "Becoming Interculturally Adaptable: Chinese Student Sojourners Attending German Universities." Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities, edited by Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso and Max Vazquez Dominguez, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3448-9.ch003

APA

Rao, X., Kew, K., & Hernández, A. (2020). Becoming Interculturally Adaptable: Chinese Student Sojourners Attending German Universities. In L. Cardozo-Gaibisso & M. Vazquez Dominguez (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities (pp. 1-24). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3448-9.ch003

Chicago

Rao, Xiaofei, Kristin Kew, and Anita Hernández. "Becoming Interculturally Adaptable: Chinese Student Sojourners Attending German Universities." In Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities, edited by Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso and Max Vazquez Dominguez, 1-24. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3448-9.ch003

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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.