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Topic: Studying abroad is benefit to students

Before ten years ago or even earlier ,studying aboard was very rare, students who went aboard to study must have outstanding performance or they were quite well off. Nowadays ,with the rapid development of the modern society,in order to acquire more knowledge and absorb more useful experience, there are an increasing number of students choosing to further their study abroad especially some developed countries like Occident(Britian,Germany,France,America and Canada), Australia,New Zealand and so on. For example, in China ,a lot of senior high school students and undergraduates decide to continue their study in other countries which have high quality of education when they graduate. Currently, the number of international students is increasing considerably. International students can be seen everywhere in all famous universities. It seems to become a kind of fashion. Studying abroad brings a serious of disadvantages and advantages so according to this essay I will analyse both of pros and cons about students going abroad to study and give my own opinion.

International students will be confronted with so many psychological and physiology problems. When they have language barries with classmates and flatmates whom from other countries they will feel loneliness, helpness and get homesickness in a new environment. Some international students lack of adequate knowledge of the customs and the local people’s lifestyle so they can not melt well with community that they will lose their confident of anything,consequently,some of them may get inferiority cimplex to a great extent. Perhaps some weak students are worried about communicate everyday so that they could not study carefully or acquire knowledge and experience as well asthey expected initially. Furthermore,they may be not acclimatized such as climatic variation can lead them get cold or fever,difference of diet customs may affect them indigestion or malnutrition.

Secondly,finance may be a big problem because the high overhead cost. Students not only have to pay tuition fees two or three times expensive more than the local students’ but also to pay accommodation fees and daily expenses. This is not everyone who wants to study abroad can go abroad ,some students have to give up their dreams of studying abroad as the result of their families can not afford the high cost. On the other hand, many international students may be often distracted by earning money when they do not have enough money to use. They started to find part-time jobs while they do not enough time and energy to study carefully. In accordance an aricle said that part-time jobs seems to be full-time jobs(1) and some international have unequal treatment but they can complain. Moreover most of the students are part-time job as waiters or cleaner in resturants and they could not acquire some useful experience.

However,the effects of studying abroad like a double-edge sword, under no circumstances should ignore the advantages of studying abroad. To start with,international students have opportunities to learn novel technologies and recent science achivement abroad. Many developing countries have strengthened cooperation with other developed countries thus let their scientific and technological level have been improved rapidly. During the time of studying, international students also can acquire some interpersonal skills and exchange experience with others. As some parts of an article named What's the Subject of Study Abroad?: Race, Gender, and "Living Culture" main said that “Studying to other countries can widen international knowledge including reflection on one’s own culture,acquire the host country’s culture and other knowledge and let students understand the cultural knowledge such as their academic,personal and professional interests ”(3).

Besides, studying abroad can cultivate students' ability to live independently. When they live in an unfamiliar environment students have to deal with many problems. They have to learn how to be accustomed to a new environment and how to get along with the teachers, classmates and flatmates. In addition, studying abroad can provide a good language environment to students and make it easy to pick up a language because they can practise speaking with the local people what they study at school. Foreign language is a useful tool and it can remove language barrier and make international cooperation much easier. As the development of global economic integration, to learn several foreign languages become more and more necessary. Anyway these lives’ experence are helpful to their jobs later.

From a survey (Why study in UK?)said that there are more than 300,000 international students including 50,000 postgraduates studying in UK recently. As can be found the figures of international students is increasing rapidly. Moreover country which intetnational students choosed is not only UK but also other countries which have highlight attracted students. For example,student go to French to learn fashion design,go to Australia and England to learn the finance and media and go to American to learn business ,etc. To sum up,while studying abroad offers great opportunities for a bright future,it also has challenges that international students must try their best to overcome what happened to come true their dream. Obviously,the advantages of studying abroad outweigh the disadvantages greatly. We strongly encourage students go abroad to study if they have chances and when then finish their curriculum then can make huge contributions to build their countries. Only see both of advantages and disadvantages about studying abroad to students can let them make wise choices.








References:
(1)http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/intlr129&div=11&g_sent=1&collection=journals#37
(2) By Steinberg, Laurence; Fegley, Suzanne; Dornbusch, Sanford M.Developmental Psychology. Vol 29(2), Mar 1993, 171-180.
(3) http://www.jstor.org/stable/330333?seq=4