Summarization

Trace, A.G. says that international students who had rich social interaction with American friends are able to adopt better intellectually and culturally.

Cigularova says that international students' relationships with host nationals have positive effect on their psychosocial adjustment. However, it's hard to have those relationship so it's necessary for school creating programs to develope them.

Assertiveness is one of the key factors to succeed in the U.S. not only academically but also socially. Academic self-efficacy is also useful too. To support international graduate students, instructing them the U.S. educational system and life will be very helpful.

Collocations_070220_EFL111

1. assistance

Q1. - humanitarian, technical, medical, financial and enforcement
- physical, psycological

Q2. - manual of a computer program, news report, report of a organization and school information

Q3. provide, offer, receive and request

Q4. giving : provide, offer
getting or asking : receive, request


2. attitude

Q1. positive, prudent, responsible, hostile, ambivalent, inflexible, detached and critical

Q2. positive : positive, prudent and responsible
negative : hostile and inflexible
neutral : ambivalent and critical(depends on context)

Q3. adopt, create and take

Q4. towards


3. authorities

Q1. city, state, federal, local, German and Russian
These words mean certain areas and government level.

Q2. student, school and any kind of organizations

Q3. Authorities have to keep people and environment safe such as preserving forested area in a city, protecting agricultural communities from flooding, preventing the violence plaguing inner cities and educating the public regarding steps to take during times of crisis.
Authorities also have jurisdiction over their citizens judging right or wrong based on the law.

Q4. authorities might have duties regarding people's welfare


4. indication

Q1. X is a sign Y , X shows, proves, gives hint of Y,( X tells us something about Y), symptom

Q2. reliable, strong and clear

Q3. be verb, see, take and find

Q4. of


5. Reliance

Q1. total, growing, heavy, reduced and excessive

Q2. a fixed degree : total, heavy and excessive
a change in degree : growing and reduced

Q3. bad thing

Q4. over-reliance. Examples show warnings against over-reliance.


6. approach

Q1. conventional, creative, pedagogical, systematic, traditional, innovative and social anthropological

Q2. old : conventional, traditional
new : creative, innovative
others : pedagogical, systematic and social anthropological

Q3. to

Q4. journal, research paper


7. assess

Q1. impact, effect, preferences, consequences and damage

Q2. effect of the president's popularity over next election or impact of Japan's economic growth in the world economy

Q3. questionnaires, on-site interviews
These methods are basically asking people's opinion.

Q4. plan to assess, objectively assess