PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS ON THEIR ADAPTATION TO ACADEMIC LIFE
PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS ON THEIR ADAPTATION TO ACADEMIC LIFE

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a survey conducted among the foreign students enrolled at the University of Pitesti in the current academic year, on their habituation to academic life, to the teacher-foreign student, foreign student-Romanian student relations of communication. The study aims at probing the perceptions of foreign students on the definition of the main needs of adaptation to the academic environment, on the analysis of the communication relations that facilitate interknowledge, of the factors that can influence different situations of interpersonal and didactic communication, identification of those attitudes and actions that address some of the causes of the foreign student’s failure to adapt to academic life. The research is exploratory and relies on a questionnaire-based survey.The study findings highlight the values, representations, beliefs and behaviors of foreign students on their integration into the academic life of the university and provide important anchors of reflection for teachers and students with whom they interact in order to initiate future actions to facilitate interknowledge, interculturalism and multilingualism.

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