2019年文化冲击调查报告(英文版).doc

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION (2)

2. METHODOLOGY (2)

3. FINDINGS ...................................................................................................... ..3

4. DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS ........................................................... (3)

5. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................... ..5

6. REFERENCES (6)

7. APPENDICES (7)

1. INTRODUCTION

This report aims at the culture shock which means people' feelings and behaviors when they move from one culture to another (Brick, 1991). According to the four stages of the culture shock (Brick, 1991), our group made a questionnaire about the situation of studying or living abroad and in terviewed 45 stude nts whom were selected at ran dom in the William Buildi ng and the library of Middlesex University and not from the UK. In this report, the methodology is described and the results of the questionnaire are given. Then, we will analyze the data and explain our results by using theories from Brick (1991) and Boddy and Patton (1998). After the section of analysis and discussion, the conclusion of the research and the whole work of our group will be made.

2. METHODOLOGY

Our team consist of three members. We used questionnaire to obtain information about culture shock. We constituted different kinds of questions. Firstly we started questionnaire with identifying people, which nationality they are and how old they are. And then we learned How long they have been in London and what their first impression of their destination was. If they express their first impression as excited, we learned what happened, effecting them badly. This questio n is related sec ond stage of culture shock, depressi on stage. We focused on the problems and asked, what the most difficult problem they dealed. Un til third stage, they must have felt culture shock a lot. In this point, we wan ted to find out how they resp ond to the culture shock. After they lived certain time in new culture or new country, we examined whether pozitive situatio ns arose. Gen erally they have positive improveme nts after they get used to living in new culture. This improvement is related to adjustment stage. After the adjustme nt satge, we stressed some questi ons to tell how they reach to

accepte nee stage. In this case, we asked how they spe nd their spare time and

how much they know about UK culture. Fin ally we exam ined that there must

have been some adjustment to decrease intensity of culture shock and adaptation

period. Although we deducted some questions, our questionnaire seemed too

long according to interviewees. Those long questions and answers caused them

to loose their attention. We motivated them to focus on our questio nn aire a lot.

On the other hand, some people did n their time for questi onn aire. Moreover,

t want to alloc some of them replied to the questi ons without reading exactly. These situations

cause to waste of our time. Each team member made an in terview with 15

people. Fi nally we obta ined 45 nu mber of in terviews. We exam ined our in

terviews in Exel. We con stituted graphes and pie charts. Accord ing to objective

data, we con cluded culture shock.

3. FINDINGS

The survey was done after in terview ing 45 stude nts selected at ran dom of

students at Middlesex University (MDX) to answer a questionnaire about the

culture shock. Of the interviewees, found multiples international such as Thailand,

China, Vietnam are the most interviewees from this report and the most com mon

of stude nts had affected by culture shock in clud ing Ian guage problem, weather

and the difficult to con tact with their family. On the other hand, 94 % of stude nts

found that after have bee n liv ing here for almost one year they felt their English

improved and 27 students found when they first arrived could adapt to the return

culture easily and on the other hand 18 stude nts felt a little difficult to adapted.

4. DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

The results of first question about nationalities shows that all the students who we

in terviewed came from differe nt cultures and Ian guage en viro nments from

these of the UK, so they must felt the culture shock, and this was be

dem on strated from the follow ing questio ns. About 60% of the sample thought that they felt excited the first time they arrived in the UK while the first impressi on of 30% of the in terviewees is n ormal. Those perce ntages illustrates the first stage of Brick (1991), the euphoria, and shows that most of the stude nts thought that study ing abroad is in teresti ng and could be the beg inning of their new lives when they were new in the UK.

After the first impression, all sample found some problems such as local food (42%), local weather (53%), physically vulnerable (2%), economic problems (2%) and differe nt religi on, but accord ing to the results of the seve nth questi on, two-thirds of the interviewees thought that the most difficult problem to deal with is Ian guage problem, 16% of the sample thought that is lack of life skills such as cooking or washing and the others thought that is living far from friends and family. The en tire sample always missed their families and friends and was ofte n in con tact with them (everyday for 67%, 3-4 times a week for 18%, once a week for 13% and 2-3 times a month for only 2%). Accord ing to Brick (1991), they became being in the depressi on stage, they found that many things seem difficult, and bega n to feel l on ely, frustrated and hopeless.

Then, the students seemed to enter the third stage, the adjustment. The thirteenth question illustrates that the students tried to decrease intensity of culture shock and adaptati on period, a few (22%) prepared con versati on type depends on cultural background, a significant majority (47%) learnt background of new culture from media (e.g. TV , newspaper) and some (31%) met people with different culture background especially during negotiating. And the data shows that, after some time later, students found some new and good situati on such as almost all the stude nts thought their En glish improved. That means they bega n to adapt to the local culture and thought this place is not so bad and wan ted to un dersta nd some of their customs.

In additiom, differe nt stude nts have differe nt characters, so that some may like

to stay alone and others like to make friends with each other. For example, 24% of the sample like stay ing at home to spe nd their spare time, 24% prefer going outside of London, 36% like meet ing old friends and the others prefer making new frien ds. Absolutely, if some one likes maki ng friends with other people, he or she may adapt to the local culture more easily.

5. CONCLUSION

In conclusion, as the information above, the purpose of this report is to research the culture shock related to our questio nn aire. For this purpose, we did a lot of researches and fin ally got the result. Then, accord ing to the four stages (Brick, 1991), I an alyzed all the data to learn how the students feel and what problems they meet when they are study ing abroad.

REFERENCES

Brick, J., Culture shock", 1991, in China: A Handbook In Intercultural Communication Sydn ey, Nati onal Centre For En glish Lan guage Teachi ng And Research, pp. 9-16 Boddy D & Pat on R, 1998, The Intern ati on al con text of man ageme nt in Man ageme nt, Hemel Hempstead: Pren tice Hall, pp. 88-97

Appendices

The questionnaire and the result

I. What is your nati on ality?

13 Thaila nd

8 Chi na

4 Viet nam

2 Colombia

1 Libya

1 Pakistan

2 In dia

4 Ven ezuela

2 Korea

2 Italy

3 Saudi Arabia n

3 Turkish

2. Your age whe n begi nning study ing abroad

a) Below 20 6

b) 20-25 23

c) 25-30 8

d) Above 30 8

e) Others

3. How long have you bee n in London

a) below one year 20

b) 1-2 years 14

c) 2-3 years 9

d) above 3 years 2

4. What was your first impression of your destination?

a) Excited. 26

b) Normal. 13