博士 / 長榮大學 / 經營管理研究所 / 105 / In this era of globalization, the number of international students is increasing all over the world. With the impact of low fertility, Taiwan’s colleges are widely taking in students from abroad. In 2016, there were 17,788 international students island-wide. This situation causes crucial influence on international students recruiting policy and demographic dividend in the future. However, there is not any existing comprehensive study to cover the issue of international students studying in Taiwan.
This study pinpoints the influence of social support on international students’ learning effectiveness in Taiwan, as well as the mediation effect of overseas adjustment and school identification and the moderation effect of cultural difference. We adopt questionnaire survey method in this study, dividing Taiwan into four districts—north, center, south, and east, employing stratified purposive sampling. Having distributed 500 written questionnaires, we collect 421 valid copies, with a valid returned ratio of 82.4%. Valid questionnaire copies accrue to 457 if 45 valid online questionnaire copies are counted.
The collected questionnaire statistics are tested by Andrew Hayes (2012) Process and SPSS 22, going through the analyses of field effect, mediation effect, moderation effect, analysis of variances, and descriptive analysis. Results of data analysis show the following phenomena. The international students’ social support has positively significant influence on their learning effectiveness, which is partly mediated by school identification and overseas adjustment. In the influencing relationship of social support on learning effectiveness, cultural difference has moderation effect. Among the control variables, only official language shows no significant difference in all layers of the study, all the other control variables possessing partial difference.
The results of this study can serve as a valid indicator to our Ministry of Education when drawing up the policy of international students studying in Taiwan and responding to the crisis of low fertility. Moreover, they can also be used as guidelines of teaching and counseling measures to colleges in Taiwan when they recruit international students, as well as a reference of learning and living for the international students staying in Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105CJU00457022 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | HUANG, CHEN-FEN, 黃貞芬 |
| Contributors | LEE, YUAN-DUEN, LIN, CHIU-CHUAN, 李元墩, 林秋娟 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 145 |
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