Research methods on study of international students

Research methods on study of international students We are doing hypothesizes and conclusions of things happened around our lives everyday; there has lots of similar events happened together that form many kinds of phenomena no matter in natural science or social science. How those conclusions, theories or formula came out? Behind those, there are groups of researchers using varieties of methods to study on a project and then the results came out. Different subjects need different research methods. For example, a chemist would like to do varieties of experiments by changing single variable like times, different colors on the same object or places; however, a sociologist or a psychologist is more likely to observe different groups of people that do the same thing. In this paper, I will analyze the research questions and research methods in researches of international students. Researches about international students should be involved in immigration study, which should belong to sociology field. Researchers focus on many different aspects of international students including languages, their motivations to study abroad, their adaptations and relations with domestic students, etc. In this paper, I will mainly analyze the different methods in two researches about the adaptions and their coping strategies of international students. One of the articles I have read is written by researchers Baohua Yu and Kevin Downing, which was titled “Determinants of international students’ adaptation: examining effects of integrative motivation, instrumental motivation and second language proficiency.” In this research article, like the title said, the authors examined the influence of integrative motivation, instrumental motivation second language proficiency on socio-culture adaptation by observing two groups of international students studying Chinese in China. The authors performed background researches at the beginning of their own research, referring lots of research