Poster: Socio-cultural Adaptation of Foreign Students at Kazan State Power Engineering University

Sociocultural Adaptation of International Students From Neighboring and Distant Countries: Integrating Analytical Contexts

“…The limited psychological resources for adaptation and the expectation of high academic and sociocultural outcomes challenge higher education organizers to intensify the learning process by designing learning and activity content in forms that motivate the expansion of the realm of social interaction. Thus, after studying the nature of the sociocultural adaptation of international students studying at a technical university in Kazan, the reasons why students from distant countries approach their compatriots instead of integrating into the Russian student community were revealed [21]. The level of Russian language proficiency, the authors emphasize, provides security and protects against discrimination.…”