A Study On Cross-Cultural Adaption Of African Students In Wuhan University Of Technology

As increasing numbers of African students come to China for education, their state of cross-cultural adaptation attracts our attention. This paper adopts a research method based on interviews and observations conducted on African students in Wuhan university of technology in Wuhan. Focusing upon African students everyday life experiences, researches carried out from different perspectives like academic situation, psychological stress, everyday life and social interactions to get an idea of how they fit in new society. Researching on the elements affecting their cross-cultural adaptation, this paper also analyses their communication behaviors and the intercultural communication conflicts between African students and Chinese.This research finds out:It shows that the main cross-cultural problems African students experience are:academic performance, homesick, discrimination and prejud-ice, difficulty in communicating with Chinese.The study also provides evidence that social and cultural adaptation condition is quite different among different international students, in which the variables of gender, culture background, level of the Chinese language, staying length in China, former overseas experience and expectations all contribute as individual predictors of adaptation process. Among social environmental factors, the students’ social interactions with Chinese students, their involvement in Chinese social life, social support from Chinese society are of most importance.