UTM INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE ON INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION AND COMPETENCE
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Most of the previous studies attempted to investigate intercultural communication competence (ICC) from the students’ perspectives. Other studies were done on adaptation and adjustment reporting the experiences of expatriates in this regard. However, the current study is one of the few studies investigating adaptation on the light of intercultural communication. A detailed questionnaire with different sections is used in the current study to achieve its aims and objectives. The current study is systematic in terms that it uses the theory of cross-cultural adaptation as the theoretical framework to investigate the issues in hand. Three dimensions of the cross-cultural communication model are highlighted and investigated in this study namely: social communication, personal communications and predispositions. Using manual analysis, the study explores intercultural competence and adaptation experiences of international students.
References
Deardorff, D. K. (2006). Identification and assessment of intercultural competence as a student outcome of internationalization. Journal of Studies in International Education, 10(3); 241-266.
Dunne, C. (2009). Host students’ perspectives of intercultural contact in an Irish university. Journal of Studies in International Education, 13(2); 222-239.
Gudykunst, W. B. (2003). Cross-cultural and intercultural communication. California: Sage Publications.
Halualani, R. T. (2008). How do multicultural university students define and make sense of intercultural contact? A qualitative study. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 32(1); 1-16.
Kim, Y.Y. (1998). On theorizing intercultural communication. In Y. Y. Kim & W. B. Gudykunst (Eds.).
. Samovar, L. A., & Porter, R. E. (1993). Intercultural communication: a reader (No. 303.482 I-61i). Wadsworth Publishing.
Spitzberg, B. H. (2010). Axioms for a theory of intercultural communication competence. Intercultural Communication: A Reader. 13th edition. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing. 424-433.
. Spitzberg, B. H., & Changnon, G. (2009). Conceptualizing intercultural competence. The SAGE handbook of intercultural competence, California: Sage Publications. 2-52.
