清华大学跨文化课程教案9

Lead-in case: Doubts
Text A:
Acculturation
▲ Pre-reading Task:
If you go abroad now, what kinds of situations will you be in and what kinds of relationships can you develop with people of that culture? Please list some possible results:
c. Separation and segregation
Separation is when individuals prefer low levels of interaction with the host culture and associated microcultural groups while desiring a close connection with, and reaffirmation of, their native culture. If such separation is initiated and enforced by the dominant society, this is called segregation
a. Language Shock
b. Role Shock
Role shock refers to the feeling of loss of personal status in an ambiguous new environment in which we make efforts to switch our role in order to fit and function well in the host culture.
Predisposition
Personal Communication
Host Receptivity
Preparedness
Social Communication
Host Conformity Pressure
Ethnicity
Ethnic Group Strength
Personality
Text B:
3. Effects of culture shock
Physical Symptoms
Psychological Symptoms
Culture Shock
Text C: Intercultural Adaptation
▲ Pre-reading Task:
Consult someone from your culture who has been living in another culture for a relatively long period of time. Ask him/her to tell you his/her feelings and experiences when he/she was in that culture.
d. Marginalization (边缘化)
Marginalization occurs when the individual chooses not to identify with his or her native culture or with the host culture.
The Process of Acculturation
c. Transition shock
Transition shock is used to describe the distress we experience when trying to cope with the multitude of changes required by the host culture. It is similar to the state of losing a close family member, divorce, or geographic relocation.
d. Culture fatigue
Culture fatigue is used to describe the physical and psychological discomforts experienced by sojourners trying to adapt to a new culture.
Physical symptoms are over-concern about cleanliness of food, bedding, and dishes, extreme stress on health and safety; fear or physical contact with anyone in the new country; great concern over minor pains and skin eruptions; craving “home cooking”; use of alcohol and drugs; and a decline in work quality.
g. Culture distance
Culture distance refers to the distance between a sojourner’s culture and the host culture and signals the degree of alienation, estrangement, and psychological distress the sojourner feels as a result.
Home New
Separation
Integration
Assimilation
Marginalization
Segregation
3. Factors Affecting Acculturation
Factors Affecting Acculturation
Communication
Host Environment
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
2. Modes of acculturation
a. Assimilation b. Integration
is a process of desiring a high level of interaction with the host culture while maintaining identity with their native culture. is a process in which members of an ethnic group are absorbed into the dominant culture, losing their culture in the process.
大学英语 跨文化交际
Chapter 9 Intercultural Adaptation
黑龙江大学外语部
Learning objectives:
Chapter Outline
Intercultural Adaptation
Acculturation
Culture shock
Intercultural Adaptation
f. Adjustment stress
Adjustment stress is a term used to indicate bodily physical tension that signals a person’s readiness to face the challenges of the new cultural environment.
Culture Shock
▲Pre-reading Task:
Culture Shock
Culture shock
It refers to the traumatic experience that an individual may encounter when entering a different culture.
1. DefinБайду номын сангаасtion
Intercultural adaptation refers broadly to the process of increasing our level of fitness to meet the demands of a new cultural environment.
Strategies for:
Definition
Symptoms
Definition
Avoiding Culture shock
Modes
Forms
Stages
Factors
Effects U-Curve Pattern W-Curve Pattern
Engaging in Intercultural Adaptation
2. Forms of culture shock
a. b. c. d. e. f. g. Language shock Role shock Transition shock Cultural Fatigue Education Shock Adjustment Stress Culture Distance
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
1. Symptoms of culture shock
a. physical symptoms b. psychological symptoms
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
a. physical symptoms
Positive
Negative
Possible Results
1. The definition of acculturation
Acculturation （文化适应） refers to an individual’s learning and adopting the norms and values of the new host culture.
2. Stages of Intercultural Adaptation
U-curve Pattern
Honeymoon Period Crisis Period Adjustment Period Biculturalism Period
W-curve Pattern
•reverse culture shock
e. Education shock
Education shock is frequently used to describe what happens to international students who try to adapt themselves to academic life, especially when the learning situation is new and distressing.
Activity: Quiz Imagine that you are going to a large urban American university for graduate study. To evaluate your adaptation potential, rate yourself on the adaptation checklist. Give yourself a score for each item according to the following scale: 1. Poor 2. Not as good as most people 3. Average 4. Better than most people 5. Excellent Adaptation Checklist Total score Background and Preparation Age — youth is an advantage Education — the higher the better Urban background — city dwellers do better than rural residents High level of professional skill General knowledge of the new culture, its history, custom arts, etc. Specific knowledge of the new situation; city, university, etc. Oral and written fluency in the language of new culture Previous out-of-culture experiences Similarity of home culture to new culture Personality factors Tends to be accepting of different ways of doing things Likes to meet new people and do new things Stays calm in difficult situations Pays attention to people and not just to tasks Can tolerate ambiguous or uncertain situations Has a sense of humor Strong but flexible in character Willing to take risks; not too concerned about social and psychological security Attitudes and motivation Voluntarily chooses to be in contact with the new culture Attracted to the new situation rather than escaping problems at home Admiration and respect for the new culture No sense that one culture s superior or inferior to another Few stereotypes (inaccurate broad generalizations) about the new culture Health Robust good health Good health habits High energy level
Home cooking
b.psychological symptoms
Psychological symptoms are insomnia, fatigue, isolation and loneliness, disorientation, frustration, criticism of new country, depression, nervousness, selfdoubt, irritability, anger, and emotional and intellectual withdrawal.