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a comparative study of Indian and Korean graduate students at Texas A&M University
acculturation to a host society. It also examined the coping
American students. Yet, both groups claimed to be
as their greatest handicap. Although it was found that all
backgrounds, motivations for study abroad, fluency in the
cited finances as their most serious problem studying abroad,
dependent on successful cross-cultural relationships with
different strategies depending on their advantages or
disadvantages in each particular area. Indian students often
dissatisfied with their perceived lack of interaction with
environment. International Indian and Korean graduate
host language, average age,, academic adjustments, and
of these factors contribute, either positively or negatively,
social acculturation to the host country appears to be highly
sociocultural characteristics. The two student groups used
strategies utilized for success in a new academic
student groups were analyzed by comparing historical-cultural
This study was designed to determine factors influencing
toward the acculturation process, the sociocultural factor
was the most critical of the factors examined. Achieving
while Korean students generally listed linguistic inadequacy