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Nugraha, Rahmadya Putra and Ibrahim, Nor Fauziana and Tai, Hen Toong (2020) Competency of Overseas Student in Overcoming the Culture Shock Among Indonesian Students. International Journal of Social Science and Human Research, 03 (08). pp. 101-105. ISSN 2644-0695 / 2644-0679

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Abstract

Communication is an important thing in interacting with fellow humans. Intercultural communication is a communicatioan betweens peoples with different culture. In the process, constrains is often encountered oobstacles which can hinder the intercultural communication process. These constraints can obtained from the different cultural environment or from people’s psychologisc. One of the cultural communication problem is culture shock. This research will describe and explain the competence of Mercu Buana University’s overseas students to overcome culture shock in new environment. This research is an constructivist type, research that seeks to understand the people’s environment and develop subjective meaning. Moreover, this research is derciptive type with qualitative approach. Descriptive is aim to collect, explain, and summarize a data towards the subject under study. Qualitative is an indeep research and analysis of collected data. The research methods is case study taht collect, organize, and analyze data about certain cases. The research result is, everey overseas students has their own methods to handle culture shock and adapting with new environment. The first thing that became a challenge for overseas students is the different culture. The different culture make some overseas students feels worry, homesick, and culture shock. But they can handle the problems, they try to develop the competence of communication in order to adapt with new environment.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Intercultural Communication, Overseas Students, Culture Shock
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology
Divisions:	Faculty of Business (FOB)
Depositing User:	Ms Rosnani Abd Wahab
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2021 02:49
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2021 02:49
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/8420

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