International students, group communication(students organisation) and acculturation
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Introduction
There is fairly a large body of literature on the Acculturation process of immigrants, however most of the research has primarily focused the relationship between mass media and Acculturation ignoring the impact of interpersonal communication in the process.
The negative experience that international students relate to within the nation they go to acquire education is an obvious factor whose existence cannot be overemphasised. This occurrence is synonymous with almost all international students the Chinese included. This issue is mainly blamed on the problems that exist in the communication processes among individuals of different backgrounds, both ethnic and cultural. Group communication is believed to form one of the major factors of this problem.
This paper aims to present a bibliographic essay using the major works on communication and Acculturation.
Group communication Acculturation
Acculturation is not a new area of study, since scholars have studied and researched the area since the 1930s. Unfortunately though Scholars have, for the most part, ignored the communication aspects of acculturation and when communication variables were included in these studies, they were discussed as nominal factors rather than significant factors. Among the communication variables examined in those studies were usage of ethnic publications (Breton, 1964); competency in the host language (DeFleur and Cho,
1957; Johnston, 1963); ownership of television and radio (Graves, 1967); and
Interpersonal relationships (Weinstock, 1964; Graves, 1967).
Acculturation is an area believed to be studied by Sociologist and Anthropologist and as such previous research have come from...