Adaptation Of Foreign Students Research Articles

«Культурный шок» как необходимый этап процесса адаптации иностранных студентов-медиков в профессиональной среде российских вузов

The article examines the phenomenon of “cultural shock” experienced by foreign students in the professional environment of a medical university, as well as the difficulties faced by students during their first years of study. “Cultural shock” is presented not as a barrier to development, but as a necessary stage and challenge, through overcoming which the process of adaptation begins. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that the adaptation of foreign students in a Russian university is a complex process that requires an integrated approach and a systematic adaptation program. Successful adaptation necessitates creating conditions that take into account cultural, national, ethnic, and racial (religious) differences. The author presents the results of a study conducted at Volgograd State Medical University among foreign students.

Академическая успешность студента как основа ментального благополучия в поликультурной среде университета

The article addresses the crucial issue of integration and adaptation of foreign students from an unusual perspective, focusing not on specialized migrant programs but on engagement with host social groups. For these groups, the influx of individuals from different cultural backgrounds is also a stress factor that elicits responsive reactions to active migration processes. The study described in the article examines the psychological well-being of foreign students at a specific university, considering their self-determination in a new social milieu and the level of societal acceptance. Social adaptation depends not only on an effectively organized communicative process, but also on the level of everyday comfort; the synthesis of these factors forms a favorable emotional and psychological background that allows integration to take place as comfortably as possible. The level of societal acceptance, as well as the academic community’s awareness of the cultural specificities of different categories of international students, is a key factor affecting psychological well-being.

외국인 유학생의 상담 관련 연구 동향 분석 및 대학생활 적응 관련 변인 간의 상관관계 메타분석

Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze the research trends related to counseling for foreign students and to explore the effect size by performing a meta-analysis of correlations between college life adaptation and related variables. Methods In November 2021, a total of 53 studies were selected for counseling-related research on foreign students published in the registered journals and candidate journals of the National Research Foundation of Korea. Based on previous research, analysis criteria were established and analysis was conducted on year, nationality, research method, research topic, etc. Among them, meta analysis of cognition cognition, emotion, and relationship-related variables for 10 studies on college life adaptation of foreign students was conducted. Results First, the research on counseling for foreign students started in 2008, and the research on Chinese students was the most frequent with 35 (66.0%). Second, as for the research method, quantitative research was the largest with 36 (67.9%). Third, the most research topics were personality and adaptation with 31 (58.4%). Fourth, as a result of meta-analysis, a small effect size appeared in the emotional and relational variable group, but no effect size was found in the cognitive variable group. Conclusions Based on these results, directions for research related to counseling for international students, intervention methods in the counseling scene for international students, and implications for follow-up studies were presented.

Особенности адаптации учебных мигрантов в условиях пандемии: опыт МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова

In the modern global world, in the conditions of intensive migration flows and the deepening of educational contacts, the problem of adaptation of educational migrants in the educational area of the host country is becoming more and more relevant.The COVID-19 pandemic, faced the world in 2020, posed a number of acute problems for universities. Of particular concern was the situation of foreign students as more vulnerable category. This article presents the results of a study of the features andadaptation problems for educational migrants during a pandemic on the example ofLomonosov Moscow State University foreign students. Based on the analysis of statistics and secondary data, the active growth of educational migrants is confirmed, mainly due to foreign students from the CIS countries.To identify the level and problems of the foreign students adaptation, a survey was conducted, in which 284 respondents from 11 faculties took part.The analysis covers organizational, content, communicative and personal components of adaptation. In general, the results of the study revealed a low level of adaptation of foreign students during the pandemic. The most difficult thing is the adaptation of students from far abroad countries, in particular from China. The most adapted are senior students from Kazakhstan. During the pandemic, the main difficulties in adapting foreign students are related to organizational issues and communication. Comparison of the obtained results with previous studies revealed that the pandemic had a negative impact on the communicative component of adaptation to a greater extent. In the context of the pandemic, the number of foreign students who want to stay in the country after completing their studies has decreased.The results obtained in the course of the study made it possible to propose a number of necessary promising measures to organize the process of adaptation of foreign students in the event of the repeated introduction of restrictions on the universities work.

Socio-Cultural Adaptation of International Students in Vietnam

The paper is the first to examine international students in Vietnam despite the country's long-existing effort at internationalization. The empirical study is conducted at a large public university in the capital of Vietnam, a popular destination for foreign students. The study explores socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students and finds that lack of support system severely affects their adaptation, especially in academic adaptation. The paper aims to draw attention to the renovation of university system in order to better serve the needs of a diverse student body.

FOREIGN STUDENTS SPEECH ADAPTATION TO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The article considers the issue of adaptation of foreign students to the language, sociocultural and everyday environment for further professional training in higher education institutions of other countries. Further integration of national economies into the global world economy creates the preconditions for the emergence of a global labor market, which in turn requires a significant number of professionals who can design and implement ambitious largescale projects. This requires a coordinated work, a high level of communication (especially speaking and communicative) to work in international multi teams. This has created a demand for professionals who have the appropriate training, regardless of the place of education, knowledge, skills and competencies, which require some unification, universalization and standardization at the national level. Further formation of the world global educational space. This requires a high level of communicative, linguistic and speech competences (knowledge of the language at the scientific level) of future students for their professional training outside their country, which needs the appropriate speech adaptation in a foreign language environment. To achieve this goal, it is proposed to carry out adaptation with the help of online (virtual) preparatory faculties (hereinafter – OVPF), which takes on all issues related to the adaptation of future foreign students in the new linguistic, scientific, sociocultural, everyday dimensions, as well as in further educational spheres (medical, humanitarian, physical-mathematical, linguistic, etc.). The introduction of the online (virtual) preparatory faculties makes it possible to adapt future foreign entrants / students at their homes. An important element of the preparatory faculties are local lore studies. At the same time, OVPF is proposed as a separate universal global educational product that can be placed on world educational platforms, portals and websites.

Linguistic Communication and Adaptation of Foreign Students in Russian Universities

Linguistic Communication and Adaptation of Foreign Students in Russian Universities

Концептуальные подходы и программа полимасштабного исследования миграции иностранных студентов в России

Introduction. Student immigration is considered as one of the most active forms of youth spatial mobility. The main task of the study is to develop conceptual approaches and a program for studying the spatial features of student immigration in Russia. Materials and research methods. The study is based on the analysis of extensive literature materials that reveal the main theoretical and methodological provisions of the analysis of educational migrations. Their strengths and weaknesses have been established, the need to develop new approaches related to identifying the spatial aspects of international student migration has been proved. Results of the study and their discussion. Based on the key theoretical and methodological provisions and the revealed facts, taking into account our own proposals and accumulated experience, a conceptual scheme and a program for studying the features of the spatial differentiation of student migration in Russia have been developed. As core areas of research, the following are proposed: identifying spatio-temporal features of development and differentiation of processes associated with the immigration of foreign students at the global, country and regional-local levels; establishing positional factors influencing decision-making when choosing places to receive higher education abroad; disclosure of intra-country inequality in the distribution of foreign students depending on the characteristics of the sending countries and receiving regions; detection of country and regional models of adaptive behavior of foreign students. In accordance with the logic of the developed concept, a program for studying the spatial features of the immigration of foreign students in Russia is presented. The step-by-step algorithm of the research program includes several stages, reflecting the nature and content of the main tasks to be solved. Conclusions. An analysis of the state of the theoretical and methodological base on the problem of migration of foreign students made it possible to establish the lack of elaboration of aspects related to the spatial features of their transformation and, in particular, the adaptation of foreign students in host countries. The proposed conceptual approaches and research program are aimed at filling the identified gaps.

Issues of academic adaptation of foreign students in the context of the pandemic and distance learning

Issues of academic adaptation of foreign students in the context of the pandemic and distance learning

Assessment and comparison of adaptation levels of foreign students at pre-university training programs

Successful adaptation of foreign students to higher education system and life in Russia is an actual objective of all pre-university training programs. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of academic, social and psychological, and personal adaptation of foreign students of the pre-master’s training program in comparison with the adaptation level of future foreign bachelors. In empirical research the authors analyzed responses of 92 foreign students of the pre-university training programs at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The results show that the process of foreign pre-master’s students’ adaptation differs in its specificity. In accordance with the competency-based approach in modern education this fact is recommended to be considered when preparing programs of pre-master’s training of foreigners for admission to Russian universities.

National-regional component in concept of open education courses on russian as foreign language

The goal of the study is to consider the content of open education programs in Russian for the professional foreign cultural community. The need to design working programs considering the capabilities of the national-regional component is justified. The authors consider the adaptation of foreign students in the new urban environment and the formation of sociocultural competence that allows one to actualize efficient communication in the academic and non-academic context. The authors propose approximate options for introducing the national-regional component to open education courses: visualizing and verbalizing significant events or phenomena of the city's everyday artistic culture; introducing representative images of spiritual culture, getting acquainted with key texts and names representing the topoi of Nizhny Novgorod and the region (the image of the Volga, the legendary city of Kitezh; modern song lyrics about the city; prominent names in the history and culture of the city: the painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin and the poet Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky). The authors justify the significance of the text-centric approach to study Russian as a foreign language as well as linguistic disciplines taught in Russian to a foreign-language audience, including when introducing the national-regional component into the structure of academic subjects.

Monitoring the Social Attitudes of Foreign Students

It is necessary to monitor the social attitudes of foreign students in order to involve foreign applicants in a favorable to Russia discourse, applying the concept of “soft power”. Applicants’ social attitudes have a direct impact on the choice of the country of study and on the effectiveness of social, cultural, pedagogical adaptation of foreign students. The socio-cultural characteristics of foreign students were studied using focus groups, expert polls, and narrative interviews. The classification of foreign students according to cultural profiles has been made. Attitudes of students from different cultural profiles were monitored according to the questionnaires developed by the authors. Based on the scaling techniques of E. Bogardus, C. Osgood, L. Thurstone, L. Guttman, R. Likert, an integral index was calculated for each cultural profile. Methods for monitoring the social attitudes of foreign applicants make it possible to identify the specifics and dynamics of the attitudes of cultural profiles. Positive attitudes towards Russia contribute to the export of Russian educational services and attractiveness of the Russian cultural space and the educational system.

Social and psychological adaptation of foreign students in a Russian university

Getting medical education in Russia is becoming more and more popular among foreign students every year. The need to study foreign students’ social and psychological adaptation in medical universities is caused by the increased need to train high-qualified doctors not only in our country, but also in the world community.The goal was to identify the features of social and psychological adaptation of foreign first-year students of the medical University.Methods. The study involved 131 first-year students, including 56 Indian students studying at the international faculty of General medicine of the Northern state medical University (31 boys and 25 girls); and 75 Russian students of the pediatric and medical faculties (25 boys and 50 girls). The diagnostic approach in the interethnic and gender aspects based on the methodology of socio-psychological adaptation of K.Rogers-R. Diamond, modified by A. K. OsnitskyMain results. The parameters of social and psychological adaptation of foreign first-year students corresponded to the average normative indicators, Russian students were at high level of adaptation. Foreign students, in General, had a positive attitude to themselves and others, including opportunities to contact colleagues and patients, experience average emotional comfort in interpersonal relationships and were quite active in activities. The results of the assessment of Russian students indicated a high degree of acceptance of themselves and other people, as well as emotional comfort, responsibility and high activity.Conclusions the applied aspect of the problem can be implemented in the development of programs for psychological and pedagogical support of foreign students at the initial stage of study at the Medical University.

PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF USING A BUSINESS GAME IN THE PREPARATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS OF MEDICAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS FOR UKRAINIAN-LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION

The article presents the results of the use of business games in the preparation of foreign medical students for Ukrainian language communication in the course of Ukrainian as a foreign language. The relevance of the study is due to the need to develop new forms and methods of work, determined by rethinking the goals of teaching subjects in connection with the expansion of cooperation between Ukraine and other countries in providing educational services. The expediency of finding the most effective innovative teaching methods is also related to facilitating the process of adaptation of foreign students in the Ukrainian-speaking environment and the formation of skills for the correct use of language in the process of professional medical communication. Based on the analysis of recent research, it is concluded that the issue of practical implementation of the method of business game in working with foreign students, depending on their chosen profession, remains insufficiently studied. Accordingly, the purpose of the article is to present the materials of the business game «At the doctor’s» to prepare foreign medical students for Ukrainian language communication. In the process of achieving this goal, the method of theoretical analysis (to study the peculiarities of the application of business games) and the method of simulation (in order to demonstrate the use of game technologies in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language) were used. As a result of the study it was determined that the business game is one of the most effective methods in the formation of communicative competence. The analysis of the knowledge acquired by students in class proves the effectiveness of the introduction of game techniques

Linguistic Aspect of the Technology for the Use of Video Content in the Process of Adaptation of Foreign Students at Higher Education Institutions of the United States of America

Linguistic Aspect of the Technology for the Use of Video Content in the Process of Adaptation of Foreign Students at Higher Education Institutions of the United States of America

The linguo-regional knowledge aspect of the structure of the teaching methodology of Russian as a foreign language as one of the ways of adaptation of foreign students

The present article touches upon the problems of adaptation of foreign students in the multicultural region of Russia - the Astrakhan oblast. The article outlines the main methodological ways of solving them in the framework of education by updating the linguo-regional knowledge aspect of the structure of the teaching methodology of Russian as a foreign language (RFL), and gives descriptions of methodological models for the implementation of linguocultural adaptation of foreign students in the process of educational activities of the university based on the linguoregional specifics of the region. This work reveals the significance of the regional component of the RFL methodology aimed at forming communicative skills and abilities of students, in order to intensify the adaptation process. The authors present the features of country-specific and linguo-regional studies carried out in classroom and extracurricular time at the Department of Russian Language of Astrakhan State Medical University. The authors of the article associate the effectiveness of the adaptation process and acculturation of foreign students with the actualization of the linguo-regional knowledge aspect of the structure of the RFL methodology, which contributes to the formation of internal motivation for learning the Russian language and getting acquainted with Russia, to the removal of psychological communication barriers and to the development of communication skills. This work suggest using the principles of consistency and concentrism in the formation of countryspecific and regional knowledge, ensuring the reliability of visual information, and taking into account the native culture of foreign students with semantisation of words with a cultural component.

Lifestyle and adaptation of foreign students in the Far Eastern city (on the example of Vladivostok)

Lifestyle and adaptation of foreign students in the Far Eastern city (on the example of Vladivostok)

Educational migration from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to the Russian Federation

Nowadays educational migration is still one of the most relevant topics for Russian and foreign scientists and understudied topic at the same time. Despite the many published sources including quantitative and qualitative aspects of the process, the set of topics under consideration is quite limited (adaptation of foreign students, brain drain, demographical characteristics of migrants, etc.). The article using scientific principles of systematicity and general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison, classification, etc.) considers the dynamics of the changes in the amount of foreign students from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to the Russian Federation (including which countries they are from), correlation of the process with forming-up Common Education Space in Russia and CIS. The study conducted led to the conclusion that the actions by government agencies of the Russian Federation, higher education institutions and scientific organizations allowed stopping the negative process of foreign students drain, which took place in 1990-s, promoting and increasing the educational migrant influx from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 2000 to 2007. Among the leaders in the number of students studying at Russian universities, in early 1990-s there were Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belorussia and in 2017 there were Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The factors of adaptation of foreign students in the Kaliningrad socio-cultural environment

Regions where universities and research institutes are located are attracting a vast majority of international students. Providing appropriate conditions for the social and cultural adaptation for foreign students to a local culture and social environment of the universities is an urgent issue that requires attention with a scientific approach. In this research authors considered a number of factors affecting social and cultural adaptation of the foreign students. The factors are combined according to the framework of potential challenges: person-person, person-environment, person-educational organization. In order to overcome these challenges this research suggests a number of initiatives to allow for a successful adaptation of international students to the regional social and cultural environments.

ПРЕПОДАВАНИЕ ЛИНГВОСТРАНОВЕДЕНИЯ ДЛЯ ИЗУЧАЮЩИХ РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК КАК ИНОСТРАННЫЙ НА НАЧАЛЬНОМ ЭТАПЕ

The article is devoted to the methodological organization of classes of Russian as a foreign language. The content of the educational literature for foreign students who study Russian at the A2 level, and the requirements of the educational standard for Russian as a foreign language, presented by the Russian state testing system for citizens of foreign countries are considered. An important component of the lessons of Russian as a foreign language is working with a text, which allows you to form the ability to perceive the meaning of the whole text, develop reading and speaking skills, enrich students' knowledge about the country of the language being studied. The text on the city of Yelets is used as a material for the lesson. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that it is proposed to develop a lesson that is aimed at foreign students studying Russian at a basic level. The novelty of the study is that it is based on the regional material. The text, intended for the cultural adaptation of foreign students, describes a familiar place for them - the city of Yelets, in which students live and receive education, so material that takes into account personal interest allows us to intensify the cognitive activity of students. The use of the regional component in the RFL classes motivates the study of the language and contributes to its successful development, as language sources are included that reflect the specifics of the Lipetsk Region and raise interest among foreigners. The materials of the practical lesson are designed to acquaint students with the cultural traditions and lifestyle of the residents of Yelets. A complex of pretext, text and posttext exercises aimed at improving speech skills is proposed. Pre-text tasks are aimed at removing lexical and grammatical difficulties that may arise when working with the text, text tasks - to form a communicative attitude for reading, post-text - to check the understanding of what is read.