| dc.description.abstract | This study focused on interpersonal communication barriers, the
sociocultural and language difficulties of adaptation among international students
can lead to academic issues. and aimed to identify the barriers and factors which
influence interpersonal communication among international students and to
examine the extent to which these factors have affected international students’
adaptation to cultural transition in learning and living in the Bogor agricultural
University. This study involved both quantitative and qualitative methods. The
quantitative component utilized data collected through semi structured
questionnaires on 40 International students representing international students
from postgraduate school of Bogor agricultural University, the qualitative
component of this research utilized interviews method, while the data analysis
techniques used to answer the research hypothesis is statistical analysis with SPSS
and correlation.
The study reached to many results, the most important of them are, there
was a significant difference with respect to Characteristics of individuals in the
perception of barriers to interpersonal communication among international
students, though there was a significant difference in opinion among international
students regarding various dimensions of academic adaptation. The majority of
international students mentioned that barriers were due to the source of
communication especially in Indonesian language, where 77% student are bad in
speaking Indonesian language, and 80% of international students speak English
very well. in addition, the results revealed that, around (54%) student find slight
difficulty to understand and accept the Indonesian culture, and Correlation
between GPA and Proficiency of English language was significant while in
Proficiency of Indonesian language was not significant. | id |
