A Critical Review of International Students' Adjustment Research from a Deleuzian Perspective

Autor/in	Vasilopoulos, Gene
Titel	A Critical Review of International Students' Adjustment Research from a Deleuzian Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 6 (2016) 1, S.283-307 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Foreign Students; Study Abroad; Student Adjustment; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Self Concept; Guidelines; Problem Solving; Epistemology; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; Social Environment; Socialization; Stress Variables; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Selbstkonzept; Richtlinien; Problemlösen; Erkenntnistheorie; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse; Soziales Umfeld; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Collegestudent
Abstract	The author in this paper critically reviews recent literature on international student language and adjustment to Western Anglophone universities. Two streams of research are discussed: the problem-solving approach guided largely by positivist epistemologies and quantitative methodologies contrasted to the post-structuralist language and identity framework employing qualitative methods. Limitations to both perspectives include the reliance on fixed constructs of language and adjustment, the isolation of interrelated variables, the attempt to establish linear correlational/causative relationships, the essentialization of identity, and the inability to explain change and variance. Deleuzian ontology of "becoming" and assemblage is put forward as a framework to better understand the complexity, unpredictability, and ever-changing process that international students face when co-adapting to the their new academic community. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01