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Among the related literature gathered and reviewed by the researchers are theories, concepts, and ideas that would help determine the specific variables of the study. These help specify the primary and most common factors that would affect the adjustment period of the foreign students upon residing into a new country.
In the writings of Hammer (1992), he implied that international students have several difficulties as they reside to a new environment. He pointed out four general areas to be covered: “the problems of sojourners to encountering a new cultural environment, the influence of social interaction and communication on sojourner adaptation, and the culture learning process apparent in the cross-cultural sojourn.” With this statement and with the chosen subject of the study, the foreign students would be the center of the framework. As analyzed by the researchers, the top of the framework consists of three factors that would most likely give the foreign students a difficult time to adjust.(don’t introduce your variables or study first.discuss only the theories. Develop the theories)
Torbiörn (1942) defined culture shock as the failure in interacting with the local environment. Until the foreign students gain the confidence to interact with the local students comfortably would they be considered being able to adjust to their new environment. The third variable of the framework therefore is the adjustment period of the foreign students their new environment.
(theories not well explained.theories on factors?)
Conceptual Framework
Considering the theories combined, the researchers came up with a conceptualized and more specified framework. Above the foreign students to whom the study is conducted for, are the factors which affect their adjustment period towards the new country. The factors were more specified into communication, culture and education. (not yet. Match and relate the theories first to your concepts/variable before pointing at the diagram)
As shown in this framework, a foreign student would try to learn the new ways of communication, the new culture, and the new ways of education as he/she resides to a new country. The foreign student would then experience the differences of the factors (i.e., communication, culture and education) in his/her home country and the host country. These factors then determine the adjustment period of the foreign students towards the new country.
The framework is organized in such a way that the factors which the foreign students go through as they reside to a new country would determine their adjustment period.
(conceptual is made shortcut)

Operational Framework
The operational framework now shows a more detailed and more specified background course of the research study. It now presents the target and focus of the study.
The target of this study is the group of foreign students studying in the University of the Philippines Cebu College which is found at the center of the framework. Above them are the obvious factors which will probably give them a hard time as they encounter the differences in their home country and the host country. And below the focus is the adjustment period of the foreign students towards their new school environment.

First among the factors is the language used in communication. Language is the primary factor in interacting and communicating towards the other students. Therefore it affects the social life of the foreign student. It is a big possibility that a foreign student speaks a different language in his/her home country. And another big possibility is that not all foreign students can speak or understand the English language fluently.

The second factor is the cultural differences in the students’ home country and the host country (i.e., the Philippines). The second factor is branched into two: the national norms and the social roles. The researchers would investigate as to how the foreign students cope up to the behaviors prescribed by the society (i.e., the national norms), and the behaviors that the society expects from them (i.e., the social roles).
The third factor is the teaching style of the foreign students’ new school. There is a possibility that the teaching style familiar to the foreign student is different from the teaching style of the University of the Philippines.
After the three factors, the foreign students will be investigated and analyzed. And since they are students, their adjustment towards their new school environment – the University of the Philippines Cebu College – is very crucial.
The course of the study which is represented by the operational framework is based on the concepts and ideas pointed out by the theories and resource studies provided in the previous pages.
(good. Your theoretical and conceptual should be like your operational.detailed and well explained)