ERIC Number: EJ1253916
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-2162-3104
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Social Interaction between Students: Local and International Students' Experiences at a Turkish University
Aydin, Oya Tamtekin
Journal of International Students, v10 n2 p383-400 2020
The relationship between local and international students has become one of the most important topics in the literature on the internationalization of education; however, these discussions have focused mainly on Western countries and on the perspectives of students who are from similar home countries. The views of students who choose to study abroad in Turkey offer different perspectives. Forty-two international and 35 local students enrolled at Istanbul Bilgi University participated in the study. No students reported an absence of relationships between local and international students; no international participants mentioned loneliness, exclusion, or isolation, even though these concepts appear in many studies of students in Western countries. All students who reported having poor relationships with other groups identified the language barrier as the main cause, and introversion in both local and international students may have prevented meaningful relationships.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Friendship, Foreign Students, Interaction, Barriers, Communication Problems, Extraversion Introversion
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
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