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International Students Limitations

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International students have in recent years come to constitute a large proportion of the worldwide student body in the higher learning institutions. There is hardly any country that is unaffected by the presence of international students in its institutions of higher learning (Paige, 1990) (As cited in Lackland, 2000). As a result, this leads to my two research topics. The first one is “Do international students feel difficult to adapt into school social life with locals?” and the second one is “Are most of international students more hardworking than the local students?”. Why is it so important to study these topics about international students? One of the factors is that there are no less that 15 percent students in Temasek Polytechnic are international students and this number is still increasing as the time goes by. Hence, this increasing number of international students is the assumption that students can serve both culture carriers and as link between cultures (Eide, 1970). Another factors is …show more content…

Furthermore, “the quality of the participant observation depends upon the skill of the researcher to observe, document, and interpret what has been observed” (SCHENSUL and LeCOMPTE, 1999) (As cited in Kawulich, 2005). Therefore, it is very easy to get inaccurate information. For in-depth interview, there are some pitfalls. As the researchers want to “prove” something, their interview responses may happen to be biased. Other than that, in-depth interview can be very time-consuming. Interviews can be a time-intensive evaluation activity because of the time it takes to conduct interviews, transcribe them, and analyze the result (Boyce, C., & Neale, P., 2006). Hence, it is noticed that more time should be included for transcription and analysis of detailed

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