Since the sociability of college students in their working environment has become a serious issue, enhancing students’ experience in socializing needs to be studied urgently in higher education. The essay will start with the situation of sociability in China and Chinese higher education. Through analyzing the reasons why college students have problems in personal communication, the definition of social skills and the significance of social skills to the college students and the internationalization of the university, it suggests that the essence of social skills is in relation to role shift. And then the essay proposes four ways of enhancing students’ social skills in which voluntary activity that belongs to extra-curricular activities is highlighted.

Du Hui. Enhancing Students’ Social Skills in Chinese Higher Education. Frontiers in Educational Research (2019) Vol. 2 Issue 5: 92-104. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.034043.

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