Disadvantages Of Studying Abroad Study

2016-2017 The First Semester

Guangxi University Sino-Canadian International College

Bitter and sweet of studying abroad

Student Name: Valerie

Student Number: 1526211324

Course Name: Writing 1502

Professor Name: Kerrie

Paper Due Date: 2016.12.27

Bitter and sweet of studying abroad

With the deepening of reform, opening-up of our country and the accelerated process of globalization, many people dream of going abroad for further study. Many students seek new experiences advanced communication and cultural competenciese as well as personal and academic development abroad. Although studying abroad is crucial, students have to confront threatened personal safety, extraordinary pressure, expensive tuitions. Since studying abroad have both bitter and sweet, students who are willing to study abroad should weight the advantage and disadvantage. There are some merits of studying abroad. Above all, overseas study can broaden students’ the international perspectives. On the one hand, overseas students have a frequently intercultural communication with the other people from different regions, countries and nations, which makes their thoughts

Nevertheless, There are some drawbacks of studying abroad. It is particularly worth mentioning that overseas students have to confront extraordinary pressure. For one thing, although independent study mode is beneficial, the abroad teaching contents, learning methods as well as teaching methods are totally different from domestic, which make overseas students lag behind the teaching progress. Therefore, overseas students are under huge academic stress. For other other thing, overseas students feel lonely and isolated because they may be entirely friendless, unaccompanied without family connections. At the beginning, overseas students have to accommodate diverse cultural and social conditions and deal with language and cultural barriers. It is hard for overseas students to integrate into social circle of native