International students acculturation: side experience and own contribution

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Elena Tkachenko
Jha Sahil Kumar
Aqib Muhammad
Shabuddin Rizwan

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The article is devoted to the problem of acculturation study in the International students in our educational establishment and abroad regarding to the acculturation theory of J.W.Berry, speech competence as important contributive factor of their adaptation as a whole and cross-cultural particularly; own pedagogical means and approaches used at the lessons in the English and Russian academic groups of medical and dental profiles. The authors emphasized to essentiality of the applicants’ typological belonging taking into obligatory account in assessing the foreign students’ acculturation and helping to reach its optimal value by filling and speed (by the tutors, curators, psychologists, dean-office stuff, other students). Big attention is paid to the necessity to take the International students’ individual coping styles and learning styles in their proper acculturation reaching as well as cross-cultural experience sharing.


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Tkachenko, E., Jha Sahil Kumar, Aqib Muhammad, & Shabuddin Rizwan. (2022). International students acculturation: side experience and own contribution. Scientific Collection «InterConf», (130), 160–165. Retrieved from https://archive.interconf.center/index.php/conference-proceeding/article/view/1548

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