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Emerging Academic and Social Spaces: Toward a Modern Understanding of International Student Integration in Australasia

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  • Matthew Gordon Ray Courtney

    (Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Carlton, Australia)

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The number of international university students in Australasia is set to increase over the next five to ten years, making the integration of this group important to the region. Whilst university lecturers continue to play an important role in this process, much of university students' communicative behaviour with peers continues to shift more and more to social network sites (SNS), namely Facebook (FB). Using a large response-driven sample (N = 491) and structural equation modelling (SEM), this study presents a dual-path model of international student integration that illustrates two parallel processes to improved institutional commitment: (1) the staff-academic system, where staff's genuine concern for student development improves students' perceived academic progress, and commitment; and, (2) the student social-network-site system, where strategic integration of FB contributes to the on- and offline maintenance of close friends, and improves institutional commitment. The implications for policy and practice are discussed.

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  • Matthew Gordon Ray Courtney, 2018. "Emerging Academic and Social Spaces: Toward a Modern Understanding of International Student Integration in Australasia," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), IGI Global, vol. 8(3), pages 36-47, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcbpl0:v:8:y:2018:i:3:p:36-47
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