Features Of An Adaptation Of Foreign Students Of The First And Third Course

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of foreign students’ adaptation to studying in the Ukrainian universities; major difficulties during the adaptation process are displayed. A theoretical grounds for the development of social intelligence as a component of the student’s inclusion in social life is given. The level of foreign students’ social intelligence was examined and the difference in its development for students of first and third courses was determined. The success of the adaptation process provides an adequate interaction of international students with socio-cultural and intellectual environment of the university, a psycho emotional stability, the formation of new personality traits and social status, the development of new social roles, an acquirement of new values, and the comprehension of the importance of the future profession’s traditions.