ASSINGMENT ON

CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT

SAINTGITS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

KOTTAYAM

SUBMITTED BY:
KAILAS S NATH

SUBMITTED TO:
MS. SHINO ABRAHAM
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

SUBMITTED ON:
24/05/2021
Cultural adaptation
Cultural adaptation is the process and time it takes a person to integrate into a new culture
and feel comfortable within it. A person in this position may encounter a wide array of
emotions that the theory describes in four different stages. This includes the honeymoon,
culture shock, recovery, and adjustment stages.
Cultural adaptation
The rising popularity of the Chinese language as a subject for study has motivated research
on international students’ cultural adaptation and language learning during periods of study
abroad in China. This inquiry examined the challenges that a group of New Zealand students
encountered and the strategic responses they adopted in relation to cultural adaptation in
China. In the inquiry, we encouraged 15 participants to write reflective journals and
conducted group interviews to explore their experiences. The analysis revealed the variety of
challenges that the participants faced, including language-based, lifestyle, and academic
challenges as well as sociocultural and psychological ones. In response to these challenges,
the participants adopted diverse strategic efforts to achieve cognitive, affective, and skill
development in facilitating their communication practices with local Chinese people. These
findings suggest that language educators need to revise traditional pedagogical approaches so
that new pedagogical activities can be developed to promote study abroad students’
communication competence, and counselling services should be provided to support their
cultural adaptation and language learning