Cultural shock: An Investigation and A Proposed Theory
學年 91
學期 1
發表日期 2002-10-04
作品名稱 Cultural shock: An Investigation and A Proposed Theory
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 Lin, Chun-chung
作品所屬單位 淡江大學英文學系
出版者 臺北縣：淡江大學外國語文學院
會議名稱 第六屆兩岸外語教學研討會
會議地點 臺北縣, 臺灣
摘要 Culture shock usually occurs when a person enters or stays in a different country. Such shock may come from semantic misunderstanding of language on both sides, miscomprehension of the behavior of the people in the host country, and different value systems. This study aims to investigate culture shock as experienced by foreigners staying in Taiwan who were teaching at colleges or universities or learning Mandarin Chinese, and by the exchange students from Tamkang University who spent one academic year in North America in their Junior Year Abroad Program. The subjects of the foreigners in Taiwan were randomly selected on the basis of two criteria: availability in different universities in Taiwan and their first lived experience in Taiwan. The subjects from the former exchange students in North America included almost all such students in their 2000-2001 academic year exchange program. Two different questionnaires were administered respectively to the two groups and all subjects were interviewed to report on their experience and cultural perception. After all data on the two groups were collected, they were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that the foreigner group experienced far more seriously in culture shock than the exchange student group. The application of this study reveals that culture shock should be studied on the basis of a person's language ability, knowledge of foreign culture in contact, age, and the length of stay in a foreign country.
關鍵字 culture shock;cross-cultural perception;cultural identity;research theory
語言 en
收錄於
會議性質 兩岸
校內研討會地點 淡水校園
研討會時間 20021004~20021005
通訊作者 Lin, Chun-chung
國別 TWN
公開徵稿 Y
出版型式 紙本
出處 第六屆兩岸外語教學研討會論文集(上冊)，頁101-120
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