Final report

Background

These days, many international students come to the United Kingdom in order to learn their own academic subject. For most of them, studying abroad can be one of the turning point in their own life how to improve their career to the future. Therefore, it must be important for you how to live in a life and organise your time in other country. For this achievement, most universities in the UK provides them many kinds of programme before you will start the undergraduate or the postgraduate course. However, rather other activities except this programme could be much important for them because the time for staying in the UK is limited. So, it would be useful to discover how to enjoy and manage your time after the class. There are lots of activities after the class, which is provided from school and found out by themselves and so on.


Aims

The purpose of this research is to find out if different nationalities of pre-sessional students have the same priorities for after class-activities. Secondarily, it will be focused on if these activities are useful for improving your language skills.


Method

The research was carried out by use of questionnaire. The questionnaire was trialled with a small sample of 25 pre-sessional students at London Metropolitan University. Students from a wide variety of different country took part. This comprised 12 questions, which is mainly about their activity after the class, a question the reasons why do they do that activity the above question, and also a question if their doing activity are any differences between in the UK and their own country.


Findings

First of all, in terms of after-class activities, the most important and very beginning our findings is that more than 60% of respondents said that they are going to go back their home after the class on typical day. The purpose of going back to their house is mainly to do homework and study themselves (50%). Furthermore, only a few students (3 students) go to the library after the class. On the other hand, the rest of those surveyed (50%) answered that they go out somewhere else in town as after-class activity. 40% of respondents in this question said that their purpose is to just enjoy own life. Incidentally, there were no students to go working after the school. Surprisingly, most respondents (more than 70%) of those surveyed said that they have never worked in the UK.
The above after-class activity concerning, almost 80% of students indicated that they normally do these activities with their friends, flat mates and class mates from different countries to their own. There are only few students (2 students) for doing it alone.
As regards accommodation, almost two third of those surveyed replied that they are living in a private flat and university dormitory with people from different countries. The reasons why they chosen these accommodation, according to those surveyed, 33% of respondents complained rental price
Regarding university facilities and additional courses including society, almost 80% of respondents said that they attend these things, especially conversation class (50%) and library (over 60%). Conversely, some respondents (5 students) do not take part in those things.
Finally, all of respondents have free-time activities. In this questionnaire, most of them (70%) have outdoor activity and rest of them has indoor activity.


Discussion


The purpose of this research was to discover what a general trend different nationalities of pre-sessional students have an after-class activity. The findings clearly suggest that most of respondents put emphasise on their study after the school. It might be considered that students who go to the library also focus on self-studying. Furthermore, with regards of 40% of respondents who answered “visit friends” and “exploring the city”, this also seems to show that they try to assimilate something new because 80% of respondents said that they are doing after-class activities with their friends, flat mates and classmates. This could mean a need for experience and knowledge that they would not have experienced in their own countries. The data that almost 66% of respondents living in with people who has different nationalities might also mean that they need something different or new thing. Conversely, most students (75%) have never worked in the UK. It could mean that they have economically no anxious about their life in this country. Therefore, we can conclude that different nationality of students has variety of after class activities which are as to their purpose.
According to data, most students attend to some other programme which is provided from school. This seems to suggest that they interested in these kinds of activity. In addition to, these activities was played with friends in most of the time. This may also suggest that they have a fun doing these activities as well as emphasize on learning English.


Conclusion

This research was mainly focused on if different nationalities of students at London Metropolitan University have a same priority. From the result of questionnaire, international students have a many types of different activities. Although it might not mean they have a same priority, we can say that they have a same purpose, which mainly focus on improving their language skills. Furthermore, many respondents said that they usually do these activities with friends from different countries to their own. Thus, different nationalities of pre-sessional students have the same priority for improving their English level. In other words, these activities should be useful for your life in abroad. It would be no exaggeration to say that these activities influence your success for your study.