Literature Review #3

 

Citation 

Link:

https://rutgers.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_1863902922&context=PC&vid=01RUT_INST:01RUT&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI_2&tab=Everything_except_research&lang=en

Li, Zhen, et al. "Acculturation Experiences of Chinese International Students Who Attend American Universities." Professional Psychology - Research & Practice 48.1 (2017): 11-21. Journals@Ovid Full Text. Web. 02 March. 2021. <http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=reference&D=ovfts&NEWS=N&AN=00001326-201702000-00002>.

Summary

This chapter in the book explored the challenges faced by international students such as financial pressures, cultural and communication barriers. The research was conducted on international students about the challenges with coming to American universities. It also included multiple quotes and stories from Chinese international students about their own experiences and how they were able to adjust to these changes. The research conducted on the Chinese international student population created an understanding of the problems and challenges faced by these students and also what we can do to help them transition into this new environment.

 

Author(s)

Zhen Li received her BS and LLB from Huazhong Normal University in China. She is in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at Brigham Young University. Her professional interests include international students, acceptance and commitment therapy, and couples counseling. 

Melissa A. Heath received her Ph.D. in school psychology from Texas A&M University. She is a professor and School Psychology Program Coordinator at Brigham Young University. Her areas of professional interest include children’s grief, school-based crisis intervention, and bibliotherapy that addresses children’s social and emotional growth. 

Aaron P. Jackson received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is an associate professor and training director in the counseling psychology doctoral program at Brigham Young University. 

G. E. Kawika Allen received his BS in speech/organizational communication and his MS in counseling psychology at the University of Utah. He then received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed his Pre-doctoral Clinical Internship at Duke University. His research areas involve the intersections of religiosity/spirituality, coping/collectivistic coping, depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being/adjustment among racial-ethnic minorities, specifically Polynesians. 

Lane Fischer received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota. He completed his pre-doctoral internship in child and adolescent psychotherapy at the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Peter Chan received his Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University, where he currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor. He also presides over the Multinational Academic Services, a consulting firm that specializes in Sino-American educational services

 

Key terms 

"Chinese International Students" -CIS

"Discrimination"- unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people on the grounds of race

"Independence"

"Freedom"- the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint.

 

Three Quotes 

"Participants also reported that English usage was different from their initial expectation. They reported that real English uses more slang and that Americans speak too fast." (Li 15)

"I do not know whether it is because of language barrier, or the fact that I am not used to this learning style. . . . It was hard to decide when to speak. . . . I did not know what to say, so it took me a long time to think. . . . I do not know why they could share everything on their mind. . . . I always thought, could it be wrong? Will it be inappropriate to say that?" (Li  15)

"As a result of being exposed to a different culture, CISs expressed that they became more understanding and welcoming of differences." (Li 17)

 

Value
This chapter is helpful to my research as it has plenty of quotes and ideas that are given by international students. The experiences that they had here were faced with many challenges and there were solutions to some challenges but not all. I found it interesting some programs that are put in place to help these Chinese international students work better than others and that sometimes unconsciously we stereotyped others. It is also important to know that these students have to work twice as hard on assignments just because they aren't able to understand lectures or even readings that seem so simple to us.