ABSTRACT
Chinese students are currently the largest group of international students, with over 230,000 studying in the United States (IIE, 2013) and nearly 700,000 studying at foreign universities worldwide (UNESCO, 2014). In the United States, this number has risen dramatically in the last decade; in 2000, there were only around 55,000 Chinese international students in the country (IIE, 2000). This rapid growth has created a demand for universities to better understand Chinese international students’ affect, behaviour, and cognitive adaptations to better serve their needs during this transition. To address this, we focus in this chapter on the extent to which Chinese international students perceive they are accepted at an American university.
