Immigrant Student Stress

Causes of Stress Among Immigrant Students Most immigrant students have stress in college. The stress comes from their different cultural background, financial problems and family. First, immigrant students have stress because of their different culture background. For most immigrant students, their first language is not English. They have weakness in English, so it is difficult for them studying and communicating with others. They have difficulty reading textbooks, doing assignments and listening in class. For example, in the specialized subject, like accounting, students do not know the specialized words for accounting, so they can not understand what the teacher say in class. Thus they need to spend much time than native students finishing an assignment. If they do not study hard, they will fall behind others and fail in tests. Also, immigrant students feel pressure when they try to communicate with others. For instance, some Chinese students worry about making the presentation in a teamwork. Because they do not know how to express their ideas and opinions. They lack confidence in speaking English. On the other hand, immigrant students come from different countries. They have
When they immigrate to Canada, they need to pay a lot of money for renting an apartment, buying increasely high-priced food and paying transportation fees. Renting an apartment at least costs one thousand dollars. If students live far from school, they have to spend twenty-five dollars per week travelling to school. Especially they have to pay high tuition and textbook fees. For example, in the two-year program of accounting, they need to spend eight thousand and five hundred on tuition fees. It is a big pressure for most of immigrant students. In order to pay these fees, some students borrow money or apply OSAP to support their studying. Also these loans put pressure on immigrant