Abstract
The internationalization of Chinese higher education glimmers the hope for globalization and opened the doors for countries to exchange academics treasures and cultural exchange. The euphonious and mellifluous agenda behind the internationalization led the nations towards the silver lining of collaboration, interaction, and human resources exchange. However, a large volume of literature claimed the poor academic performance of international students and weak academic communication between international students and Chinese faculty members. So the study sought to explore the phenomena through doctoral. Student experience regarding their research self-efficacy development in a Chinese university. Thus, we took one Chinese university as a case due to its high accessibility of international students with broad and deep experience of being an international student in China. Our participants were international doctoral students from Asian and African countries with significant financial desperation. The findings shed light on the intention of international to pursue a doctoral degree in Chinese higher education and how it significantly delayed their research self-efficacy development.
Highlights
Higher education's internationalization becomes a resonant phenomenon (Egron-Polak & Hudson, 2014; Khalid et al, 2020)
The main research question was to find out how do international doctoral students develop their self-efficacy towards research? Our study explored through the students' voices regarding their research self-efficacy developed
Regarding the research performance during their doctoral program within the Chinese university, most participants mentioned that they feel confident about their research skills and feel energetic to conduct research
Summary
Higher education's internationalization becomes a resonant phenomenon (Egron-Polak & Hudson, 2014; Khalid et al, 2020). Scholars mentioned challenges of international students as social adjustment (Kim 2001), quality of graduate students learning outcomes (Ardakani et al, 2011); for instance, a US study noted that the academic and cultural stress among international and doctoral students (Maschi et al, 2013). Their study indicated that language and communication constraints limit international and local students' relationships in higher institutions (Sawir et al.,2012). Recent scholars enlightened that international student as "students who traveled to any overseas country to pursue their educational needs" The majority of international students comprise doctoral students who are pursuing their Ph.D. degrees in different disciplines took the attention of scholars in investigating and exploring their academic journey. Lambie's previous study stressed that doctoral students with prior and current research publications informed them that they had built confidence in their research expertise (Lambie and Vaccaro, 2011)
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