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CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the research design, the method of research, research environment, sampling procedure, participants of the study, instruments and data analysis. This research study intends to determine the factors affecting the adjustment period of UPCC foreign students to their new school environment. The researchers want to know whether factors like language, cultural differences and teaching style really affect the adjustment period of UPCC foreign students to their new school environment. In addition, the researchers want to know the respondents’ view of the Filipino culture and how do they find it compared to their own culture. The researchers want to know whether foreign students have any interest towards the Filipino culture or they do not bother learning the host country’s culture.
RESEARCH DESIGN
This study entitled “Factors Affecting the Adjustment Period of UPCC Foreign Students to their New School Environment” is a qualitative research that attempts to gather information and data concerning the factors that affect the foreign students in adjusting to their new school environment. Descriptive method of research that uses surveys andgathers information about the present existing situation will be used. The purpose of using this method is to show the nature of the foreign students adjusting in their new schools, as it is still happening at the time of the study and to discover the reasons for this. The researchers agree to use this kind of research to obtain first hand data from the respondents.(define what is descriptive method, purpose…)
RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
This study will be conducted at the University of the Philippines Cebu College (UPCC) Gorordo Avenue Lahug Cebu City. The place is readily accessible for the researchers. The researchers choose UPCC since the respondents are studying in the said school and are more available when it comes to distributing the survey questionnaires.
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS
The research participants comprise all the foreign students studying in the University of the Philippines Cebu College (UPCC). There are only 7 foreign students and all of them are under the Humanities Division. Some are taking up Mass Communication and the others are taking up Fine Arts.4 of them are Korean, 2 are Japanese and 1Australian.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
The researchers are going to use the two most common types of research tools, surveys and interviews. The researchers will be making survey questionnaires about the foreign students and the new situation they are facing, the culture shock they are experiencing and the difficulties that they have encountered with it, as well as the things that made their adjustment easier in order to point out what factors mainly affected their adjustment to the new school environment The survey was divided into four 3 parts (what is It), Education, Language, and Culture. Under Education are about the foreign students’ situation towards their new school environment, including the physical factors and as well as the social treatment of the students, teachers and faculty staff towards the foreign student. On the Language part (weak, change) will be the experiences and difficulties met in communicating with the Filipino people using the language they chose to use. And lastly, under Culture are the cultural differences of the foreign students’ country and the host country, how they did find the differences, and how did they adopt and adjust towards the differences (use active verb.rephrase). In addition, since the respondents are foreign and the researchers have no idea of the respondent’s proficiency in English, the researchers will make the questions as simple as possible.
The researchers think that the information that will be gathered from the foreign students will be limited to their point of view only so the researchers decided to interview their classmates. The researchers also will conduct an interview to the foreign students’ classmates in order to gather more data, not just from the foreign students, but also from the observation of their classmates.
DATA COLLECTION
The survey questionnaires and the interviews will be used to collect the data that will be conducted by the researchers. In order for the data not to be biased, where in the foreign students might copy from another student’s answer, the researchers are going to be around during the answering of the survey sheets. Moreover, there will be no time limit in order not to pressure the respondents.
Additionally, there will be questionnaires and guide questions prepared for the interview of the foreign students’ classmates. In the process, the interviewer will not give side comments or share her own opinions that might influence the interviewee’s answers.
By the time the survey sheets will be given and the respondents will be interviewed, the researchers have already asked permissions from the respondents.
DATA ANALYSIS
Data gathered will be collected and analysed in order to allow the researchers to attain an understanding of the research problem. Afterwards, the researchers will then summarize the information gathered and draw a conclusion from it. (not detailed.explain the process of analyzing your data)
Note: change the tense from future to past tense, since the study is already done.