Group report of 'Do Chinese students spent less leisure time than other international students?'

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Group report of ‘Do Chinese students spent less leisure time than other international students?’

Introduction:

The topic of our research is about ‘Do Chinese students spent less leisure time than other international students’. The purpose of our research is to see what are the changes of the Chinese Students’ Leisure life before and after their arrival in Stirling? We are aiming at finding out the reasons behind these changes also. That means there are two parts of our research: the first part is what are the changes? And the second part is the reasons for these changes.

Methodology:

The methods that used in our research are questionnaire and interview. The reason that we chose to use questionnaire is quantitative data are the primary data that we needed. And it allows us to collect the raw data for the further use in the interview section. We printed out 100 copies of our questionnaires initially. And at the end we received 83 back, coincidently, 43 are from Chinese Students, 43 are from other international Students.

The second method of this research is interview. After we collected and analyzed the raw data from the questionnaires, we then carried out the interview section for our research. This is the way that allows us to collect the more in-depth data. And through the interview section, qualitative data is collected. We had interview 12 international students, 6 are Chinese students and 6 international students with other nationalities. In the interview section, we can investigate the reasons behind the changes of the student’s leisure life.

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Finding and Discussion:

In this chart (3), we can see that “the change of time spending on the leisure life for the Chinese Students”. The chart shows the difference of the Chinese Students’ participation in leisure activities from home country and Stirling. And we can see that the most obvious changes of the Chinese Student’s leisure activities are the habit of television watching and newspaper reading. There is a remarkable decrease in the percentage of television watching after their arrival in Stirling. It’s over 75% Chinese students’ spending less time on watching TV. For newspaper reading, also over ...

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