الطلاب الوافدين و آليات التكيف الثقافي و الأكاديمي : دراسة ميدانية في بعض الجامعات الحكومية و الخاصة

Abstract EN

This research aims to reveal how foreign students adapt to Egyptian society (socially and academically).

It also aims to identify the problems; they face in their new social and academic environment.

Kim Yan Young’s Theory of Cross Cultural Adaptation was employed to achieve the goals of this study.

This theory asserts that human beings have innate motives to adaptation, which considered as the main goal of life.

This adaptation to the social environment occurs through communication.

Another theory was employed in this study, Tinto’s Theory of Student Departure.

This theory states that when students can’t adapt to their social and academic environment that leads to their departure from universities and they also leave the study.

The method of the study is the Social Survey Method, which helped to determine the problem of research, as well as collecting required data.

It also used many tools to collect data like questionnaire, which has been surveyed a sample of 263 foreign students, as well as In-depth interviews with a number of foreign students.

The most import findings are: There was diversity of sample’s characteristics of nationality, age, gender, marital status and academic specialization.

The foreign students can adapt socially through several indicators like communications with neighbors, making friends outside university, understanding the Egyptian dialect and the way they spend their time (travelling, going on a picnic with friends).

On the other hand they can adapt academically through several indicators such as satisfaction of academic specialization, interaction with university’s environment, participating in trips and university’s meeting parties, participating in lectures, communicating with members of teaching staff and making friends inside university.

As well as they have the ability of facing social and academic problems, which they exposed to.