What main issues do you know about if you dream of studying in Australia? New customs?
New foods? Problems with communication? Many Indonesian students find studying
in Australia very challenging. Some find it difficult to adjust to the Australian
academic life, and they feel lonely, depressed, and homesick. Others face culture shock by embracing the new ways of academic life and learning
from experiences.
When you study at an
Australian university, you cannot expect educational stuff to be the same as
those in your university. Australia is different from Indonesia. You will deal
with unexpected problems like different academic atmospheres, different lecturers and administration staff attitudes, different teaching-learning
processes, and even different ways of making friends. This paper mainly discusses
ways in which international students need to change their perspectives to study successfully in an Australian university. It also elaborates on problem-solving
skills that international students should have while studying in
Australia.[1]
[1] Presented in the Guest
Lecture for New Students at the English Department, Islamic University of
Malang, 25 January 2007 and Brawijaya University of Malang,
29 August 2008
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