Adeola Abdulateef Elega

3.4 Population and Sample 
This present study was conducted in three faculties of the Eastern Mediterranean 
University with details presented above. This study was conducted in the Eastern 
Mediterranean University, North Cyprus in Fall semester 2014. The population of the 
institution as at when this study was conducted is 18,000 from 95 countries in the 
world. The total number of Nigerian students in the institution as of this time of this 
study is 2327. Therefore researcher decides to take 10% of the total population as the 
participants of this study. The approximated 10% of the population is 232 but for the 
sake of wholesomeness researcher decides to have it rounded up to 240 Nigerians for 
the study. The researcher carefully choose participants randomly from the strata in 
the three most populated Nigerian faculties; Business and Economics, 
Communication and Media Studies and Engineering. 80 participants were chosen 
from Business and Economics, 80 from Communication and Media Studies and 80 
from Engineering. This careful selection was done through random sampling. This 
careful selection was done through a sampling strategy called non-proportional 
stratified random sampling. Non proportional sampling is what researchers use when 
they are faced with unequal sizes of sample.
This is done because Nigerians are more 
in Business and Economics, Communication and Media Studies and Engineering 
Faculty. 
3.5 Data Collection Instrument 
This research collects data through an in-house questionnaire (see Appendix 1). 
Questionnaires are one of the most used methods of collecting data in research. The 
structure of all questionnaires follows a series of questions which is arranged to get 
information about the attitude and opinions of people. Also in some cases questions 
seek answers of what people think about a particular or issue. Questions are arranged 

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for the full understanding of the respondents. This is targeted at getting a well-
grounded finding. Questionnaires are mostly given to a sample which represents the 
population of the research at hand. Questionnaires are used in research that involves 
large data. Questionnaire does it better in a research that deals with a group, state and 
even country. Also, choosing the sample to represent the population must follow a 
careful process (Watson & Hill, 2006 p. 237). 
The questionnaire prepared for the purpose of the present research contained 60 
questions. It is divided into eight parts. All questionnaires were administered without 
supervision. Out of the 240 questionnaires distributed, 238 were retrieved.
As it has been mentioned earlier, the questionnaire was divided in eight parts. 
Questions 1 to 8 were presented as the demographics which are independent 
variables (age, sex, program, faculty, religion, language spoken, residence, ethnic 
group). Questions 9 to 13 are presented as general questions about nonverbal 
communication cues, 14 to 24 covers questions on nonverbal communication in 
Nigerian culture and they are presented on four point Likert scale measuring from 
Never to Always. Questions 25 to 29 addresses questions about learning Turkish 
language, number 30 to 38 are questions about living in North Cyprus and they are 
presented on a five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly 
agree. Question 39 to 43 are presented as the use of verbal cues and they are 
presented on 5-point Likert scale which ranges from strongly disagree to strongly 
agree. Questions 44 to 55 addresses the use of nonverbal cues, also presented on 
five-point Likert scale. Questions 56 to 60 addresses the question of the use of new 
media and it also presented on 5-point Likert scale which also ranges from strongly 
disagree to strongly agree. 

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The present study seeks to know what strategies Nigerian students in the Eastern 
Mediterranean University use for nonverbal communication among the host 
community as a medium to cope with language barrier. The study will see if 
Nigerians in the Eastern Mediterranean University get a quick understanding to their 
nonverbal signals. Moreover, the present study will answer the question of whether 
language barrier has been an opportunity to learn Turkish language or not. Very 
important to this study is to know if they have an individual or a general approach to 
respond with nonverbal cues in common situation. This study will investigate to 
know if Nigerian students who run summer jobs or part time jobs adapt easily than 
those who don’t. Also very importantly the study will seek to know if they get help 
from medio form of communication (google translate, telephone calls, social media) 
to communicate.