Download or read book Taiwanese Students Social Communication and Cross cultural Adaptation written by Shao-Chi Huang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CULTURE SHOCK AND CROSS CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF AMERICAN BRITISH AND CANADIAN TEACHERS IN TAIWAN written by 蔡靜儀 CHING-YI TSA and published by 索引數位股份有限公司. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this research was to explore culture shock and cross-cultural adaptation of foreign English teachers in Taiwan. According to the findings in this research, recommendations were made for foreign English teachers and educational organizations in Taiwan to serve as a basis of conducting further researches or setting relevantly educational policies. A convenient sampling was conducted, and six participants, including American, British, and Canadian teachers, filled in semistructured questionnaire and had in-depth interviews. The results were shown as follows: 1. Influence of culture shock: (1) The first impression in Taiwan was mostly negative feelings. (2) Guanxi and Face were the most distinguishing cultural characteristics. (3) Culture shock had little impact on life, but lack of English environment caused inconvenience. (4) Impact of work mainly resulted from management style, communicative mode, and supervisory system. (5) Classroom management emphasized on responsibility and selfgovernment. 2. Adaptive situation and influencing factors: (1) Most foreign English teachers in Taiwan had good adaptation in life, culture and work, and they attempted to adjust themselves so as to conform to Taiwanese's current situations. (2) Influencing factors were mainly grouped into three categories. Affective management could turn negative pressure into positive emotion. The learning of culturally relevant social skills was used to learn customs, languages, skills, and communications. The learning of cultural knowledge and cultural cognition assisted to notice cultural difference, changing belief, and limited power in cultural transition. 3. Results of cross-cultural adaptation: (1) Most difficult parts for foreign English teachers to adapt were food and local people. (2) Among Taiwanese customs they like are close relationship and interpersonal network, but “Face＂ culture caused confusion. (3) Differences in teaching philosophy, value, and Confucian value system caused adaptive problems. (4) Identifiable vocational culture found in school stressed individual styles and leadership of director. (5) Supervisory culture in school was mainly the system management with administrative codes and assignment regulations. (6) The longer time foreign English teachers stayed in Taiwan, the better life adaptation they would have. The personal qualities affected degrees of cultural and working adaptation in Taiwan. (7) The foreign English teachers, having oversea teaching experience, had a better adaptation in life and culture, but they had a poorer adaptation in work. All in all, some suggestions were made for foreign English teachers, for administrative organizations, and for further studies. 本研究之主要目的，在於探討外籍教師在臺灣任教期間文化衝擊與 跨文化適應之情形，並藉由研究結果與建議的提出，供有意來臺灣任教 的外籍教師，以及教育當局做為研究或訂定相關教育政策時之參考。本 研究以便利抽樣，選取六位分別來自美國、英國及加拿大籍教師進行半 結構式問卷與深度訪談。本研究結果主要歸納為三個層面： 一、文化衝擊的影響： （一）對台灣的第一印象大多為負面的認知； （二）關係與面子是最顯著的文化特徵； （三）生活中缺乏英語環境，導致生活不便； （四）工作衝擊源於管理風格、溝通模式，和監督系統； （五）班級經營強調負責任與自我管理。 二、文化適應情況與影響因素： （一）大部分外師文化適應良好，並且樂於自我調整以符合現況； （二）影響因素分為三方面： 1. 透過情意管理的學習，可將負面壓力變成正面情緒； 2. 文化相關社會技能的學習，可達成習俗的了解、語言習得、技巧純熟，以及溝通順暢等目的； 3. 認知學習模式的學習，可有效涵養文化知識與提升文化認知之敏感度。 三、跨文化適應的結果： （一）最難適應的部分為食物的選擇以及與當地人相處； （二）最喜歡的部分為人際間密切的互動，但是面子文化造成困擾； （三）對教育觀、教學價值與對儒家思想的認知有差異，造成適應困難； （四）學校文化強調個人風格與領導風格並重； （五）管理風格強調行政紀律與責任歸屬。 （六）外籍教師待在臺灣的時間愈長生活適應愈佳，但是個人特質影響文化與工作適應程度。 （七）擁有其他國家教學經驗的外師在臺灣生活與文化適應佳，但是工作適應方面卻比無其他國家教學經驗的外師差。 最後，研究者根據研究結果，提出對職前訓練、在職進修，以及考 聘制度之建議。
Download or read book Media Consumption Patterns Interpersonal Communication Cultural Adaptation and Participation in Public Affairs written by Taiyun Liu and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The effects of cultural intelligence self efficacy and cross cultural communication on cross cultural adaptation of international students in Taiwan written by Nadine E. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impacts of Culture on Social Support Communication Values and Coping Strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored how people perceive and receive social support, react to stress, and value different communication skills across cultures. Three hundred and four American students and 134 Taiwanese students participated. It was predicted that Taiwanese students would utilize social support less and rely on internally targeted control strategies more than would American students. Conversely, it was predicted that both groups would equally favor comforting and ego support from friendship. The results, however, indicated that the groups did not differ on utilizing social support, and Americans favored ego support more than did Taiwanese. Since cross-cultural contacts are encouraged in many fields such as business and academia, the results have pragmatic implications for cross-cultural mutual understanding, international trading, and sojourners' adjustment training.
Download or read book Transitions written by Stuart Karabenick and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the "Transitions" that take place at major points of potential discontinuity in students' developmental trajectories and across contexts at a given time point. In this title, development literature has examined how children's motivation and achievement are affected by the shift from pre-school to school.
Download or read book Becoming Intercultural written by Young Yun Kim and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning of their adaptation process, how their internal conditions change over time, the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds, and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process. Addressing these and related issues, the author presents a comprehensive theory, or a "big picture,"of the cross-cultural adaptation phenomenon.
Download or read book Photography on Cross culture Adaptation and Communication of Indonesian Students in Taiwan written by 梁芯櫻 and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of International Students 2019 Vol 9 4 written by Krishna Bista and published by OJED/STAR. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of International Students (JIS), an academic, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed publication (Print ISSN 2162-3104 & Online ISSN 2166-3750), publishes scholarly peer reviewed articles on international students in tertiary education, secondary education, and other educational settings that make significant contributions to research, policy, and practice in the internationalization of higher education. visit: www.ojed.org/jis
Download or read book Intercultural Communication written by Ling Chen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook takes a multi-disciplinary approach to offer a current state-of-art survey of intercultural communication (IC) studies. The chapters aim for conceptual comprehension, theoretical clarity and empirical understanding with good practical implications. Attention is mostly on face to face communication and networked communication facilitated by digital technologies, much less on technically reproduced mass communication. Contributions cover both cross cultural communication (implicit or explicit comparative works on communication practices across cultures) and intercultural communication (works on communication involving parties of diverse cultural backgrounds). Topics include generally histories of IC research, theoretical perspectives, non-western theories, and cultural communication; specifically communication styles, emotions, interpersonal relationships, ethnocentrism, stereotypes, cultural learning, cross cultural adaptation, and cross border messages;and particular context of conflicts, social change, aging, business, health, and new media. Although the book is prepared for graduate students and academicians, intercultural communication practitioners will also find something useful here.
Download or read book A Study of the Process of Cross cultural Adjustment and Second Language Acquisition of Taiwanese Students on an American University Campus written by Wei-Shi Wu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intercultural Communication and Adaptation written by Shau-Ju Chang and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study investigated twenty Taiwanese students' adaptation during their first year of graduate study in a Midwestern American university. The students were balanced between the sexes and natural sciences vs. social sciences-humanities. Interpretive qualitative methods were employed. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with each of the twenty Taiwanese graduate students over a period of six to seven months. An integrative approach was adopted which conceptualized sojourner adaptation as an intercultural experience involving different temporal stages and multiple adaptational domains. The temporal stages explored included the predeparture, process, and assessment phases. The adaptational domains investigated were (a) educational and other tasks, (b) interpersonal interactions and personal relationships, (c) self-related psychological reactions and identity issues, and (d) ecological and contextual aspects of the sojourn. The study explored the relationship of various pre-existing factors and events specific to the Taiwanese graduate students' adjustment in each of the four major domains, the nature and extent of the Taiwanese sojourners' adaptive experience in each of the four major domains, and the significance of domain-specific adaptations to the overall success of the sojourn. A list of individual, organizational, and cultural antecedent factors was identified as related to the Taiwanese sojourners' first-year adaptation in an American university. Task adaptation of the Taiwanese graduate students centered on adjustment to subject content, English language skills, critical-thinking abilities, American classroom communication norms and rules, experiential learning activities, and task-management skills. The Taiwanese students' interpersonal adaptation was greatly influenced by the frequency and depth of their engagement with Americans, other Taiwanese, sojourners from other cultures, and families and friends at home. Messages, role relationships, and form and context of social interaction required the most adaptation in their engagement with Americans. Much adjustment also was made in managing connections with the Taiwanese campus community and overseas relationships with boyfriends/girlfriends at home. A repertoire of interpretive psychological strategies employed by the Taiwanese sojourners to maintain or restore psychological equilibrium was identified. Changes in self-identities were principally experienced in group affiliation and personal status/quality rather than national and cultural membership. The Taiwanese graduate students' adjustment to ecological aspects of the sojourn primarily revolved around adaptation to the physical and educational environments. Limited exposure to the local American community and mass media resulted in minimal adjustment. Over time a steady increase in the Taiwanese sojourners' English listening comprehension and reading efficiency, ability to enact various business scripts, the level of intimacy in relationships with other Taiwanese, and knowledge of the local environment was reported. A gradual decrease was noted in feelings of loneliness and homesickness. Task and self-oriented adaptation consistently received the most attention from the Taiwanese students in their assessment of overall success in their sojourn. The students' adaptation in all four life domains in the U.S. was significantly affected, and in most cases greatly facilitated, by interaction with other Taiwanese co-nationals. Finally, theoretical implications were discussed that should be addressed in future research on the adaptation of foreign students. Preventive and remedial measures were proposed concerning changes in the societal, institutional/organizational, and individual level that could facilitate the intercultural adaptation of Taiwanese students in American colleges and universities.
Download or read book Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education written by A. Fabricius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research that seeks to understand students' experiences of transnational mobility and transcultural interaction in the context of educational settings confronted with linguistic diversity.
Download or read book Friendship Formation in the United States written by Ki Fung Lam and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of International Students 2019 Vol 9 No 1 written by Krishna Bista and published by OJED/STAR. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of International Students (JIS) is a quarterly publication on international education. JIS is an academic, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed publication (Print ISSN 2162-3104 & Online ISSN 2166-3750) indexed in major academic databases. The journal publishes scholarly peer-reviewed articles on international students in tertiary education, secondary education, and other educational settings that make significant contributions to research, policy, and practice in the internationalization of education worldwide. We encourage the submission of manuscripts from researchers and practitioners around the world from a myriad of academic fields and theoretical perspectives, including international education, comparative education, human geography, global studies, linguistics, psychology, sociology, communication, international business, economics, social work, cultural studies, and other related disciplines.
Download or read book Motivating the SEL Field Forward Through Equity written by Nicholas Yoder and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivating the SEL Field Forward Through Equity looks for a deeper critical understanding of the role of social and emotional learning (SEL) as a lever for equitable access to the competencies and skills individuals will ultimately need to be successful in school, work, and life.
Download or read book Taiwanese Students Communication Strategy Use and Conversational Engagement in Synchronous Cross cultural Communication written by Chien-Hsuan Chien and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, English is widely used as a medium among people from different countries. It is necessary to learn and use English to successfully understand cultural diversity and effectively exchange ideas with others around the world. To communicate successfully in a foreign language, learners may use a different set of communication strategies (CSs) to maintain conversations. This study investigates the use of CSs and conversational engagement in synchronous computer-mediated communications (SCMC) of Taiwanese university students with Japanese and Korean students. In an eight-week Interactional Interaction for Global Leadership (IIGL) project, 33 Taiwanese university students engaged in synchronous online chat sections with students from Japanese and Korean universities in English. All the Taiwanese students completed a pre- and post-perception questionnaire. To make the present study more complete, their chat sessions in cross-cultural SCMC were videotaped. Also, 6 students volunteered to share their thoughts via in-depth interviews after the IIGL project. Results showed that Taiwanese students are more reluctant in providing verbal contribution in the cross-cultural SCMC. Lacking experiences of spontaneously using the target language, preparing insufficiently before the discussions, fearing of losing face or being unfamiliar with their interactional partners might be the reasons why Taiwanese learners were regarded as passive learners. However, Taiwanese students would still attempt to engage in the cross-cultural SCMC. They would listen to others' opinions first and prepare their responses in the non-verbal time. When sharing ideas in the classrooms, different communication strategies were utilized to cope with their speaking or listening problems during the cross-cultural SCMC. Pedagogical implications for the use of communication strategies and integration of SCMC and language learning courses are suggested. Future studies like examining Taiwanese students' actual participation and self-perceived reflection toward English conversations in SCMC collaborative works are also suggested.
