Prioritized Core Interview Questions

1. What kind of government is in charge of your home country, how did it affect your life and how has democracy in America been a change?
2.Can you describe a typical day for a child in your country?
3. What religious holidays or other cultural events do you or others celebrate; can you explain your traditions for each?
4 Do you have any daily rituals in regards to your religious beliefs?
5. What are the typical greetings in your culture and what do they mean?
6. What different modes of transportation are used in your country?
7. Which country`s food do you like the most? What are the similarities and differences between it and your own culture`s food?
8.  How would you describe famous sports in your country?
9.  At what age do you start school? Are you under a lot of stress in school?
 10. Could you tell me a secret about yourself that very few people here know about and that shows us well, who you are and what you stand for?
 11. What could SCSU do to make your stay on campus better?  

interview objectives list and process of interview

My interview objectives list

I am an international student, through this interview, I want to understand the different cultures and traditions. During my interview, I will interview the people from countries except America. I want to compare their culture and traditions with my country and I also want to compare the culture and traditions with America. I will choose a topic that I am most interested in to interview them, such as the education. I want to know if there has some policies in their countries to support people accept education, and how do they think about their countries’ educated systems, to compare with American educated system, which one do they think better?

The process of my interview

The first step:

Decide the question I will ask between the interview

        Put these ten core question into several group: family, education, policy, culture

Decide the interviewee that I will interview

        International students

The second step:

To interview people

       Introduce self and explain the our concept to them and ask them if they accept my interview

      Ask them the questions and record what they say

      Thanks for their interviews

The third step:

Collating of the information

     Look around all of the interviews you made, and divided their concept into two sides

Presentation for Research Assistance Topic

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3Mcl58sgGGYMTMwZTc3OTAtYzRiMy00MjNhLTk0ZWYtMGIyZmQxMWE0YzMy

The ten questions

1. What could SCSU do to make your stay on campus better?
I am an international student, so I do not fit for the life in US very much. SCSU has an organization named CIS to help me to stay on campus better. And there has safety center to help me when I face problems like a thief. It lets me feel safe in there.

2. Could you tell me a secret about yourself that very few people here know about and that shows us well, who you are and what you stand for?
When I was twelve, my parents angry with each other, they did not talk to each other for several days, when I saw that, I was roily. Then I went to buy two gifts, one of it I gave it to my mother, and told her that is from my father, and I gave another gift to my father and told her it was from my mother. During this thing, I think I do my responsibility as a daughter. I make my parents retire their relationship again.

3. Which country`s food do you like the most? What are the similarities and differences between it and your own culture`s food?

I really love chinese traditional food, like dumpling, like Beijing duck. There has a long history and Chinese food include many nutritions and the cuisine is plentiful, taste is delicious. And chinese people prefer to cook by themselves. Sometimes, they will create some new cuisine. Actually, there always has different special material in different places. People can do the food by using their special materials.

4. What are the typical greetings in your culture and what do they mean?
In my opinion, it is " Have you eaten?" Most of foreigners can not understand why people ask such a question, they think it is not polite, but this greeting just a sentence for greeting. It is similar to "hello", but it always for the people you recognize them.

5. What kind of government is in charge of your home country, how did it affect your life and how has democracy in America been a change?

Generally in china, government will guarantee your basic life. If you are poor population or your child can not pay for the school fees, you can apply allowance when the goverment verify your situation. Otherwise，goverment will response the child education for nine years still to high school.

6. What different modes of transportation are used in your country?
There are several main transportation tools in my country, they are bike, bus, taxi, and car. With the development of my country's economic, more and more cars appear in my country, so that the transportation in my country has a serious situation in my country. I think the government needs to support more people do not drive their own cars to go out.


7.  At what age do you start school? Are you under a lot of stress in school?
I started my school when I was 6 years old. I feel a lot of stress in school. Because my country has a precise education system, students always has a lot of homework and a lot of classes everyday. When I was a high school student, usually i got up at 6:00 am, and went to bed at 12:00pm, it is a hard time. 

8. What religious holidays or other cultural events do you or others celebrate; can you explain your traditions for each? 
The most important festival in my country is spring festival, everybody in my country pay more attention to this holiday. People treat the spring festival as a religious holiday, during the dinner, we need to eat fish and dumplings. And there is a tradition, it is better for people to wear new clothes during this day-- the first day of one year.

8b Do you have any daily rituals in regards to your religious beliefs?
No. There are some special days during my country, we just need to have some rituals during these days.

9.  How would you describe famous sports in your country?
I think the famous sports in my country is Ping-pong. It is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. A skilled player can impart several varieties of spin to the ball, altering its trajectory and limiting and limiting an opponent's options to great advantage.

10.Can you describe a typical day for a child in your country?
There is a typical day named Kindertag. The date is June 1 in my country. During this day, schools also have a big activity, the children will dance or sing during this activity. After that activity, the school will let children have a rest during this day, there has no class for children during this day. Also, children will get gifts from their parents during this day.

how to write a good summay

                                                                         Process

òRead the Article

            Do Not make note and do marks when you are reading

           After reading the first time, write down the main idea of the article in one sentence

Underline the main point

 òRead the article again, underline the major points supporting the thesis; these should be words or phrases here and there rather than complete sentences

òunderline key transitional elements which show how parts are connected

Write your summary

 òStart with a sentence naming the writer and article title and stating the essay's main idea

òUse simple words and sentence to show main point

òConclude the summary with author’s idea

òNOTE: Throughout the summary, do not insert your own opinions or thoughts; instead summarize what the writer has to say about the subject

Revising the summary

 òDoes your summary make the same point as the article?

òHave you omitted anything important?

òDoes your summary read smoothly with all parts clearly related?

Editing the summary

 òCorrect grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors, looking particularly for those common in your writing.

òWrite a clean draft and proofread for copying errors.

Group 6: Religion/Cultural Events

1. Do you celebrate any religious holidays?
2. Do you have any daily rituals in regards to your religious beliefs?
3. What are some other cultural events that you acknowledge?
4. Is religion part of you law system?

Interview Question

Family:
1. How many membership in your family?
2. How has the largest right in your family?
3. Where your family's main revenue from?
4. Does there have any policy for number of membership for a family in your country?

Food:
1. What kind of food you like?
2. In your country, do there have some traditional food?
3. Does the food in your country mostly be imported or be grown locally?
4. Which meal is main meal in your country?

Sport:
1. What is your favorite sport?
2. What your concept for doing exercise? (necessary, not important....)
3. What is the best area for your country's sport?
4. How about your country government's attitude to sport?

the grades for the story

Student Name	Creative use of the 12 items (5 Points)	Interest (3 Points)	Organization/Structure (3 Points)	Flow (transitions from idea to idea) (2 Points)	Grammar/Spelling (2 Point)	totals
Abdullaev, Farrukh K	5	2	2	2	2	13
Akbas, Neset F	4	2	2	2	2	12
Alali, Faisal H	4	3	3	2	2	15
Aldablan, Abdullah A	4	3	3	2	1	13
Alkalthami, Abdullah M	4	3	2	1	2	12
Barron, Justine L	5	2	3	2	2	14
Byiringiro, Janvier
Cai, Wenting	4	3	2	2	2	13
Chen, Boshi	4	3	2	2	2	13
Ding, Mengyao	4	3	3	2	2	14
Gu, Yi	5	3	2	2	2	14
Karna, Ashley M
Li, Zhongmeizi	4	3	3	2	2	14
Liu, Lianlin
Patterson, Tyler J	4	3	2	2	2	13
Purfeerst, Tiffany M	5	2	2	2	2	13
Rajapaksha Gedara, Janaka P	4	3	2	2	2	13
Reece, Joseph C	5	3	3	2	2	15
Reinke, Kelsey M	5	3	3	2	2	15
Schleif, Nicholas E	4	3	2	2	2	13
Smith, Tiffany M	5	3	3	2	2	15
Wang, Yue	5	3	2	2	2	14
Xu, Hao	4	2	3	2	2	13
Zhang, Xingyi	4	3	2	2	2	13
Zhang, Zhaoyang	4	3	2	2	2	13