Ready Student One: Investigating the effect of gamification approaches in Chinese international students’ cross-cultural adaptation process at Monash University

This thesis examines how gamification techniques might help Chinese international students to improve their cross-cultural adaptation outcome in Australian university contexts. It explores what adaptation problems Chinese international students predominantly encounter during their overseas study experience in Australia, and how gamified approaches can influence on their adaptation outcome. The results indicate that for Chinese international students in Australia, their adaptation problems are experiencing a renewal trend. Likewise, the result also gives a possitive reflection on using gamified approach to benefit Chinese international students’ adaptation outcome in the Australian university context.