Reflection on Research Proposal

Running head: REFLECTION ON RESEARCH PROPOSAL
REFLECTION ON RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Contribution for the Choice of Topic:
The chosen research topic for this particular assignment is the problems faced by the
students when they get around the world, for further studies. I chose this particular topic
because when I had first moved to Australia, I myself had faced many difficulties and issues,
regarding my stay, food habits, and most importantly issues related legal codes. After moving
to Australia, I figured that no one focus on the issues that a student faces or might face, and
the fact of migration is understood as a common phenomenon (Wu, Garza, and Guzman.
2015). While continuing my studies in an eminent university of the country I had come across
with other students who also had migrated to the land and were facing multiple issues. I had
also come across people who dropped out of university, as they could not cope up with the
cultural, social and legal conducts of the country (Lillyman, and Bennett. 2014). Hence, while
we were asked to choose a particular topic of the group project, I had come up with the idea
that we can choose the student migration as our research topic as a very limited work have
been done on this.
Contribution to the Literature Review:
As mentioned before, while conducting the research, we found out that there is a very
limited work done on this particular topic and therefore, I decided to look at the literature that
are already provided from different perspectives. Therefore, we have divided the literature
into four perspectives. First is the socio- cultural perspective whereby, it is shown that the
territorial barriers result into socio- cultural differences and the students find it very difficult
to adjust with these differences, and therefore, these socio-cultural perspectives have an
impact on the psychological aspects of the students. They become more inattentive which
impact upon their studies (Xu. 2015). Secondly, there is a language barrier within the
country. Australia is one of the most diversified country which invites students and teachers

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and people involved in other profession from all the nooks and corners of the world,
therefore, within the university set up, and also within the social setup of the country, there
are different dialects involved. This results into a communication gap. Students often do not
understand the course studies and since the communication gap they also find it difficult to
access help from other resources. Another perspective involved is the educational
expectations. This refers to the financial aspects related to the course studies (Hegarty. 2014).
The cost of education at the Australian universities are relatively higher, than other
international universities around the world. Added to this is the cost of living in the country.
Therefore, it is quite difficult for the students to sustain through the courses. But most
important factor that the literature have highlighted that the involvement of the teachers and
the course guidelines re not as exclusive as claimed or expected, is therefore, there is
discrepancy in the whole process, which makes the students feel more demotivated and make
them loose interest (Akanwa. 2015). The last perspective that the work has included is the
individual issues. These generally include the cultural differences and issues. As mentioned
before, there is a huge cultural gap which impacts upon the psychology of the students and
along with the differences in the cultural values of the country, also contributes as an
important factor. Moreover, the climatic changes, also pose issues as many of the individuals
fail to cope with the climatic changes, and therefore, are faced with certain health problems
(Crawford, and Candlin. 2013). Therefore, the literature had helped me to gain a complete
understanding of the issues and the difficulties that the migrated students face in the land of
diversity.
Contribution to the Research Methodology:
The research methodology and the research design are crucial for all and it is very
important to choose a research design that will enable the researchers to look at the research
topic in a more sound manner and will enable the researchers to analyse it form all the