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Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University

Communication among students from different nationalities who stay and study in multicultural university campuses is an important issue for their personal and academic lives. Among other concepts of communication, interpersonal communication which requires the direct interactions among communicators...

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Main Authors: Sarwari, Abdul Qahar, Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab, Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz
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Language:English
Published: University Putra Malaysia (UPM) 2016
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H Social Sciences (General)
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13549/1/pbmsk-2016-nubli-evaluation%20of%20the%20characteristics%20of%20interpersonal.pdf
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spelling my.ump.umpir.135492017-10-30T07:55:16Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13549/ Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University Sarwari, Abdul Qahar Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz H Social Sciences (General) LB2300 Higher Education Communication among students from different nationalities who stay and study in multicultural university campuses is an important issue for their personal and academic lives. Among other concepts of communication, interpersonal communication which requires the direct interactions among communicators is important to be assessed. This study was carried out to assess the characteristics of interpersonal communication among international postgraduate students of a Malaysian public university. This study had 128 participants from 17 different countries, and the quantitative and qualitative methods were applied for the data collection procedure. Based on the results from this study, their stay and study in a multicultural university campus with students from various backgrounds helped the participants to have opportunities to interact with different people, and to gain some new personal and social skills and information. The results from this study confirmed that most of the participants of this study who were from different countries had daily interactions with students from other nationalities, and were comfortable and satisfied when interacting with their international peers. Based on the results, personal skill building was among the main reasons that encouraged the participants to leave their own countries and enroll at a multicultural university abroad. The results from this study may encourage university students to have more interactions with their peers and may also help researchers to focus on the related issues in the future. University Putra Malaysia (UPM) 2016-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13549/1/pbmsk-2016-nubli-evaluation%20of%20the%20characteristics%20of%20interpersonal.pdf Sarwari, Abdul Qahar and Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab and Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz (2016) Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University. Journal of Language and Communication , 3 (1). pp. 12-21. ISSN 2289-649X http://www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/dokumen/FKBMK1_MARCH_2016.pdf#page=21
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
LB2300 Higher Education
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LB2300 Higher Education
Sarwari, Abdul Qahar
Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz
Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
description Communication among students from different nationalities who stay and study in multicultural university campuses is an important issue for their personal and academic lives. Among other concepts of communication, interpersonal communication which requires the direct interactions among communicators is important to be assessed. This study was carried out to assess the characteristics of interpersonal communication among international postgraduate students of a Malaysian public university. This study had 128 participants from 17 different countries, and the quantitative and qualitative methods were applied for the data collection procedure. Based on the results from this study, their stay and study in a multicultural university campus with students from various backgrounds helped the participants to have opportunities to interact with different people, and to gain some new personal and social skills and information. The results from this study confirmed that most of the participants of this study who were from different countries had daily interactions with students from other nationalities, and were comfortable and satisfied when interacting with their international peers. Based on the results, personal skill building was among the main reasons that encouraged the participants to leave their own countries and enroll at a multicultural university abroad. The results from this study may encourage university students to have more interactions with their peers and may also help researchers to focus on the related issues in the future.
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author Sarwari, Abdul Qahar
Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz
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Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Nor Ashikin, Abdul Aziz
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title Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
title_short Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
title_full Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
title_fullStr Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of the Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication among Postgraduate Students from Different Nationalities at a Malaysian Public University
title_sort evaluation of the characteristics of interpersonal communication among postgraduate students from different nationalities at a malaysian public university
publisher University Putra Malaysia (UPM)
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