跨文化交际学习资料

▲ 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:
Learning objectives:
Chapter Outline
Intercultural Adaptation
Acculturation
Culture shock
Intercultural Adaptation
Strategies for:
Definition
Symptoms
Modes
Forms
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
大学英语 跨文化交际
Chapter 9 Intercultural Adaptation
An idiom
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
—Cesar Chavez
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.
Factors
Effects
Definition Stages
Avoiding Culture shock
U-Curve Pattern
W-Curve Pattern
Engaging in Intercultural Adaptation
Lead-in case: Doubts
Text A: Acculturation
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.
Home
New
Separation Integration Assimilation Marginalization
Segregation
3. Factors Affecting Acculturation
Factors Affecting Acculturation
Communicati源自文库n
Host Environment
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
1. Symptoms of culture shock
a. physical symptoms b. psychological symptoms
a. physical symptoms
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
b. Integration
is a process of desiring a high level of interaction with the host culture while maintaining identity with their native culture.
c. Separation and segregation
Predisposition
Personal Communication
Social Communication
Host Receptivity
Host Conformity Pressure
Ethnic Group Strength
Preparedness Ethnicity
Personality
Chapter 2 Cultural Dynamics
2. Modes of acculturation
a. Assimilation is a process in which members of an ethnic group are absorbed into the dominant culture, losing their culture in the process.
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
Text B: 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.