The adjustment journey of international postgraduate students at an English university

By Lorraine Brown, I. Holloway. 2008

203 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Political Science and International Relations

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In Communication

1. A. Schartner
2. C. Wright
3. Nittaya Campbell
4. Jim McKinley
5. P. Sercombe
6. Lorraine Brown
7. Michael Hammond
8. I. Jones

In Education

1. Nittaya Campbell
2. Jim McKinley
3. P. Sercombe
4. Lorraine Brown
5. Michael Hammond
6. Wenli Wu
7. I. Sachdev
8. Tony Young

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Nittaya Campbell

Citations in the corpus

• ‘I can’t … I won’t?’ International students at the threshold of social interaction (2013, background): “Time 1 was early in the academic year in order to capture a snapshot of the participants’ experiences in the initial sojourn stage, characterized by the need to adapt both to a new sociocultural environment and to an unfamiliar academic system (Brown and Holloway, 2008).”
• Promoting Intercultural Contact on Campus (2012, background): “…stress is at its highest—it is “a time of upheaval, of intense emotion” as students “struggle to establish communicative competence in academic and everyday life and to diminish loneliness and thoughts of home” (Brown & Holloway, 2008, p. 238), intervention would be most helpful at this stage.”
• Encounters with racism and the international student experience (2013, background): “The importance of preparedness for the new culture has been noted in previous research (e.g. Kim 2001; Brown and Holloway 2008), but it is clearly not in the interest of higher education institutions to refer to the prospect of racist abuse.”
• Challenges of university adjustment in the UK: a study of East Asian Master’s degree students (2011, background): “However, this representation is seen as too schematic by most writers (see Brown and Holloway 2008 ) and, as seen earlier, some feel that the degree of shock which the sojourner experiences is over-stated.”
• Japan’s English-medium instruction initiatives and the globalization of higher education (2017, background): “For universities in the UK, international students account for one third of the average university’s income from tuition, even though they make up only 13% of the student body (Brown and Holloway 2008).”
• Success factors for international postgraduate students' adjustment: exploring the roles of intercultural competence, language proficiency, social contact and social support (2013, background): “However, recent empirical research has found evidence of highly supportive and closely knit international ties (i.e. friendships between ISs of different nationalities) 154 T.J. Young et al. (e.g. Brown and Holloway 2008; Montgomery 2010).”