ULUSLARARASI ÖĞRENCİLERİN AKADEMİK VE SOSYAL YAŞAMLARINDA KARŞILAŞTIKLARI SORUNLAR ÜZERİNE İNCELEME

Abstract

With the momentum provided by the globalization process, it has been observed that there has been a substantial increase in international student mobility in recent years. The mobility, mostly occurring towards the English speaking countries, contributes to host countries in many ways particularly economic and culturally. Thus, international student mobility is interesting for countries and policies are produced about that. In this context, Turkey in recent years rank among these countries which international student mobility increased. Accordingly, the study primarily explains international students mobility in the world. Then it examines the international student mobility in Turkey by taking Sakarya University as case study. In the second part of the work, by analyzing the literature on international students’ problems, it has been revealed that in which context the problems being discussed. In this study, the problems are gathered under two titles and evaluated in the context of education (academic) and socio - economic (social life) problems. This study used face to face survey method as da ta collection technique. After SPSS analysis, C&A value was found as 0,817. Findings include problems such as; lack of orientation and communication, concerns about the quality of education, economic situation and homesickness.