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The Summary of our survey

The homesickness is one of the problems that international students have to struggle when they study abroad. We realized it's a critical issue and we tried to figure out the root cause of the problem. Recently, we created a survey with 10 questions to ask 10 international students in Swinburne University particular EAP4A students, who came from 5 countries as Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Korea, and Japan, about their homesickness. We interviewed face to face with every individual student and received lots of interesting data as well as suggestions. Firstly, we asked the respondents personal information about ages, gender, and nationality. After that, we interviewed how they felt the homesickness and what things they missed the most. As a result, the majority of them felt homesick, 50% of participants missed their family the most, 30% of them missed their traditional foods and the less percentage missed their friends with 20%. Therefore, half of the respondents chose to contact their...
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Suggestions or recommendations of our survey

Based on this survey we found that over 90% international students are feel homesick. As we all  know we  are all from different countries and cities. So  you do not  need to worry about that. When you feel  homesickness you must know that is a common  situation in most  international students. First , when students have feeling about miss their hometown, one of suggestions are do not put themselves in that emotion, just do something make they feel happy. For example, like hang out with their friends, explore some new place or participate several activity groups . Find someone keep you company and talk about your  feeling .This solution really helpful for students to deal with the homesick problem. Second , the students can connect with someone they really miss even they are not here. They could received some emotion support and its help them more confident and feel better. Hence, this solution can help students who struggle with homesick iss...
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Reference list

Saravanan, C, Mohamad, M & Alias, A 2019, 'Coping strategies used by international students who recovered from homesickness and depression in Malaysia', International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 68, pp. 77-78. Saravanan, C, Mohamad, M & Alias, A 2017, ' The effects of brief individual cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and homesickness among international students  in Malaysia', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol.220, pp. 108-116.
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Graphs and Charts

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The pie chart shows what things the EAP4A students  miss the  most .The most popular answer is they miss their family ,50 per cent people said. The another 30 per cent said they miss their hometown food! The less per cent said they miss their friends, only 20 per cent. The bar chart shows that  the EAP4A students   homesickness effect. Almost the respondents said the homesickness make them feel stressed. Make them do not want to do anything . ONLY 10 per cent said the homesickness effect nothing to her ,because she do not miss her Country . The bar chart shows that how the  EAP4A students  overcome homesickness. The most common answer is contact their family and they friends .The rest 40% respectively are play games, read letters, watch video and  sleep . The another 10% is she don't fell homesickness The bar chart shows  that how the EAP4A students   reduce homesickness .The 30% people they choos...
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The survey questions

1. What's your gender?     A. Female     B. Male     C. Other 2. How old are you?     A. under 20     B. 20 -29     C. over 30   3. Where are you from?   4. How long have you been living in Melbourne?     A. Under 6 months     B. 7 - 12 months     C. Over a year     D. Other 5. How many times have you left your hometown?     A. 1st time     B. 2nd times     C. 3rd times     D. Other 6. How often do you miss your hometown?     A. Rarely     B. Sometime     C. Usually     D. Almost 7. What do you miss the most?     A. Family     B. Friends     C. Foods     D. Other 8. What does homesickness cause you? 9. What did you do to overcome the homesick problem? 10. How do you reduce homesickness?    
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Rationale

     Now we know international students had many problems when they left their hometown to study abroad. One of that problems are homesickness. We realize that homesickness is quite common and important so we decided to choose that topic to discuss.            we know most international students miss their hometown so we want to know more specifically which age is the most homesick and which think they are always thinking. Moreover, we want to know how long they feel homesickness and how homesickness affect them.    finally, we expect to see how they faced and overcome their obstacles. we look forward some solutions. Moreover, we want to find some advise from them and we want to know how many percent of   people are usually feel they are homesickness.      
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