A Study Of Indonesian Students' Intercultural Adaptation In China

With the expansion of globalization and the rapid development of China's economy, the number of international students that come to China to study is increasing. Such a series of successful events as joining the WTO, hosting the Olympic Games in 2008, winning in bidding the Asian Games and the World EXPO attracts the world's attention to China. As a result, more and more people worldwide have joined the ranks of Chinese learning. Apart from the fact that Indonesia has removed the ban on Chinese learning since 1998, the trade links between China and Indonesia also make it more and more popular for Indonesia students to come to China for Chinese learning. In recent years, with the assistance of scholarship from the Confucius Institute, an increasing number of Indonesia students are sent to be trained as Chinese-language teachers. Transferred to a totally different cultural environment, international students in China will face the adaptation problems. Based on qualitative study, this thesis will focus on the intercultural adaptation of Indonesian trainees in South China University of China. Research methods include participant observation and in-depth interview.The results implicate that:1. Factors including the past experiences in China or other countries, past training experiences, identity, weather problems, expectations, living installation, living habit and administrative regulations will influence the intercultural adaptation of Indonesia trainees.2. The Indonesia trainees who tend to hold stereotypes on the other cultures and limit their communication to their own culture are passive in intercultural communications3. Purpose and motivation of study are influenced by their unique identity and the age differences. Different level in Chinese and the obstacles in communicating with the teachers are the main problems of the study adaptation.