A Qualitative Study of Attitude Change in Chinese Students Who Studied Abroad: Focus on the U.K and Nordic countries’ students

Abstract

As the number of Chinese students choosing to pursue their education in other countries is increasing, which has resulted in an upsurge in the number of cultural exchanges that take place between China and other nations. With the spread of the Internet, the Nordic countries are gradually becoming more visible to the public and one of the study destinations that many students are interested in. This research hasbeen conducted on attitude change in Chinese students who has study abroad experiences or exchange experiences in reign of the UK and Nordic countries. This research mainly consists of five Chinese students' self-narratives and a discussion analyzing their different experiences of studying abroad. Although, this research is all based on the student’s self-narrative speech in foreign experiences. While it is possible that this research does not have a systematic experimental design or a well-established theoretical foundation, we are nevertheless able to extract the results that we are looking for by discussing the vivid feedback that these students have provided. It is interesting to see how their attitude change after different life experiences under the foreign cultures. The result shows that Chinese students begin to take tourism factors into account in their decision to study abroad besides the academic environment, which made education has gone from being an investment to a popular expense among young Chinese students.