Intercultural Communication between Home Students and International Students

Research has consistently shown that international students have reported experiencing difficulties socializing with home students, feeling alienated and lonely, and wanting to have more local friends. A substantial body of research has studied international students’ intercultural communication experience with home students. However, since host society and social interaction with home nationals are important factors influencing international students’ acculturation, it is important to study intercultural communication from home students’s perspective. This literature review aims to discuss the limitations and gaps in intercultural communication literature and provide an overview of research pertaining to anxiety-uncertainty, ethnocentrism, intercultural communication competence, and intercultural contact