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Suggestions or Recommendations about the Survey Topic

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Based on the survey, we found that Homesickness problem is really common problem that most international student faced with. International student found that there are many different things between their home country and Melbourne especially traditional food that most of them could not find the same taste as their hometown. In this post, three main tips of dealing with homesickness will be described such as avoiding spending too much time at your room, learning somethings new and positive thinking. First of all, it might be tempting to treat of your room as your own little safe haven, however staying in too much will only serve to make you feel worse. Isolating yourself will make your feelings more intense, as you will spend even more time pondering on what you miss about home. Trying to keep yourself busy by taking part in social activities, studying at the library rather than in your room, getting a part time job or even trying out some extracurricular activities. From t...
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Graphs and Charts

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The pie chart shows international students in Swinburne University that we interviewed are from 6 different countries. The percentage of Thailand accounted for the majority part, with 30%. Compared with the percentage of Thailand, the percentage of  China is smaller by approximately 10%, which was the same as Peru. In addition, it is followed by Columbia, Japan and Saudi Arabia (occupied both only 10%). The graph illustrates that international students miss several things. The thing they miss the most  always be their local food (50%). In addition, the percentages of boyfriend/girlfriend and family both account for 10%. This graph shows that international students felt homesickness usually at night which is occupied 30 percent. The percentages of personal anniversary and other occupied the same (20%), which is two times as much as the percentages of new year's day, birthday and new year's day (approximately 10%). This pie chart r...
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Reference List

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Kegel K., 2009, Homesickness in International College Students, In G. R. Walz, J. C. Bleuer, & R. Y. Yep (Eds. ), Compelling counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009 (pp. 67-76). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association. Kolade L., 2017, How to Deal with Homesickness Freshman Year, https://www.hercampus.com/high-school/how-deal-homesickness-freshman-year
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The Summary of Our Survey

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Currently, we created a survey form for International students who are studying EAP 4 at Swinburne University about “Homesickness”. The number of survey sample is 10, who come from different countries such as Peru, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, China and Colombia. As a strategy for survey, we have a face to face interview that included two types of questions which are open-ended questions and closed-end questions. According to this survey, we have the result that international students are attempting to adjust the gap of what they miss the most as well as when they feel homesickness the most and these gaps would bring them about the thing they missed the most and also the difficulty to find new friend in Melbourne. Firstly, we found through this survey a reality that international students studying EAP 4 at Swinburne University usually face problems of homesickness. Our survey indicates that almost 100% of participants we interviewed have felt homesickness. Mor...
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Survey form

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Rationale of the Survey

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There are many problems that International Students met when they moved from their country to aboard such as financing, culture stock and homesickness. For the time beginning, we chose Homesickness and International Student to talk and discuss in this blog. For sure that most international students faced with Homesickness problem and they also have many different solutions to solve it. Therefore, the issue in the topic that we will focus on is how international student deal with Homesickness. Most international students just left their home for the first time so, they must feel homesickness the most since they used to have their parents and relatives nearby them. Some people chose crying and being stress as the solution of homesickness. Those solutions really effected to their health and their study. Therefore, we decide to consider the solutions of dealing with homesickness to give some suggestions and some advises to those who cannot solve with this problem. We are e...
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