Communicating in foreign lands: The cause, consequences and cures of culture shock
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Language, Culture and Curriculum
- Vol. 6 (1) , 91-109
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07908319309525140
Abstract
The ability to communicate well in a foreign culture is considered as a set of learnable social skills. The notion of culture shock is introduced to cover a broad range of psychological and social reactions to immersion in another culture, many of them detrimental to communication. Programmes aimed at reducing the harmful effects of culture shock are examined in terms of the strategies adopted: (1) information giving, (2) cultural sensitisation, (3) isomor‐phic attribution, (4) learning by doing, and (5) social skills training (SST). The latter, it is argued, is the most effectiveKeywords
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