留学生作业:中国学生与其他国际学生的闲暇时光对比研究

中国学生与其他国际学生的闲暇时光
 

介绍：
 

我们研究的主题就是关于“是不是中国学生比其他的国际学生闲暇的时间更少”，我们研究的目的在于看看中国的学生在到了斯特灵之前和之后，空闲生活有什么变化？我们的目的在于发现在这些改变的后面所藏的原因。那就意味着我们的调查包含两个部分：第一个部分就是改变的是什么？第二个部分就是改变的原因。
 

方法论：
 

在我们的研究过程中所采用的方法就是问卷调查和访谈。我们选择使用问卷调查的原因就是我们需要的主要数据就是定量数据。它让我们可以去收集原始数据从而在采访环节可以进一步的用到。我们最初复印了一百份的调查问卷，最终我们收回来了八十六份调查问卷，巧合的是，四十三份是来自中国学生的，四十三份则是来自国际学生的。
 

调查的第二个方法就是采访，在我们从调查问卷中和收集和分析了定量数据之后，然后我们就开始了采访环节。

 

Leisure Time of Chinese and Other International Students 

 

Introduction: 

 

The topic of our research is about 'Do Chinese students spent less leisure time than other international students'. The purpose of our research is to see what are the changes of the Chinese Students' Leisure life before and after their arrival in Stirling? We are aiming at finding out the reasons behind these changes also. That means there are two parts of our research: the first part is what are the changes? And the second part is the reasons for these changes. 

 

Methodology: 

 

The methods that used in our research are questionnaire and interview. The reason that we chose to use questionnaire is quantitative data are the primary data that we needed. And it allows us to collect the raw data for the further use in the interview section. We printed out 100 copies of our questionnaires initially. And at the end we received 86 back, coincidently, 43 are from Chinese Students, 43 are from other international Students. 

 

The second method of this research is interview. After we collected and analyzed the raw data from the questionnaires, we then carried out the interview section for our research. This is the way that allows us to collect the more in-depth data. And through the interview section, qualitative data is collected. We had interview 12 international students, 6 are Chinese students and 6 international students with other nationalities. In the interview section, we can investigate the reasons behind the changes of the student's leisure life. #p#分页标题#e#

 

Finding and Discussion: 

 

In this chart (3), we can see that "the change of time spending on the leisure life for the Chinese Students". The chart shows the difference of the Chinese Students' participation in leisure activities from home country and Stirling. And we can see that the most obvious changes of the Chinese Student's leisure activities are the habit of television watching and newspaper reading. There is a remarkable decrease in the percentage of television watching after their arrival in Stirling. It's over 75% Chinese students' spending less time on watching TV. For newspaper reading, also over 70% of Chinese students are spending less time on this activity. However, reading is the only activity that has an increasing rate for the Chinese Students. 

 

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Let's move on to the next chart (4). This chart is about "the change of time spending on the leisure life for the other international students". Just as the pervious chart, it records the time spending on different leisure activities for the other international students after arriving Stirling. Similar to Chinese Students, television watching for the other international students has a tremendous decrease. Over 70% of them spending less time on watching television. 

 

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In these two pie charts (5), the habit of going out for Chinese students and other international students. It indicates that other international students are more willing to hanging out with friends that are with other nationalities. It's 34% for the international students in compare with 5% for Chinese students. It's quite a big contrast between Chinese and other international students in this habit. Comparing Chinese and other international students, there are 67% of Chinese students prefer going out with friends from home country, while that of international students is 28%. 

 

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In this bar chart (6), the change of leisure time spending for Chinese and other international students are shown. We can see that for the other international students, the figure in these three categories, that means spending more time, spending less time and no big change, are quite evenly distributed in compare with Chinese Students. Although more Chinese or other international students are spending less time on their leisure life, most of the Chinese Students (nearly 80%) spending less time on their leisure life after arriving Stirling. 

 

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(7) Here are the reasons for spending MORE time on the leisure life in Stirling for the both Students. They are improving English Standard, making friends, gaining more experience and killing time. In general, it shows that more international students other than Chinese are spending more time on their leisure life in Stirling. Making friends are the main reason for them! #p#分页标题#e#

 

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Here is the chart (8) that shows the reasons for spending LESS time on leisure life of both Students. The main reason for the decreasing time in spendingleisure life is limited time. It's over 60% of Chinese Students and over 50% of the other international students based on this reason and then spending less time on their leisure life. 

 

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In order to gain more in-depth explanations for the reasons of the changes, we carried out 12 interviews after analyzing the questionnaire. They are 6 Chinese Students and 6 other international students. 

 

As we mention before, television watching has tremendous decrease for both Chinese and other international students. The reason for this change is simply because they have no TV set in Stirling, so it's impossible for them to enjoy the TV broadcasting. 

 

The reason for the increase of Reading is they are aiming at studying here in Stirling. That's why they spend more time on reading reference books or lecture materials. And also due to study, that's why they spent less time on their leisure life. 

 

And for the Chinese Students, due to the culture and habit different, they tend to stay with the other Chinese Students other than the foreigners. Also one of the major problems for them to hanging out with the foreigners is the barrier of language. They think that leisure time is the time for relaxing, so they don't want to speak English anymore, so they choose to go out with Chinese instead. In addition, there is an objective factor which is there are a lot of Chinese student in Stirling, so it's easier for them to make friends from their home country. So they always stay with Chinese. 

 

Conclusion: 

 

Chinese Students should realize the principle of "Practice makes perfect!" As they said, one of the difficulties for them in getting along with the foreigner is the barrier of language, so if they can cherish the opportunity in communicating with the English speaking people, this is a really a good chance for them to improve their English. Chinese students should be more active in contact with others, which should not be limited in their own nationality also. Instead, they should try to experience more about other's culture and then broadens their horizon.