A Study On Intercultural Adaptation Of The Chinese Teacher In Indonesia

Based on the teaching practice of the interns who major in Chinese teaching as a second language in Guang Dong University Of Foreign Studies in Indonesia, I made a research on the interns’intercultural adaptation by using quantitative research and qualitative research methods.At first, I made a survey which took the intercultural adaptive training, cultural adaptive strategies, social support, language abilities as the independent variables, and took sociocultural adaptive situation and psychological adaptive situation as the dependent variables while considering early return intention, life satisfaction and teaching performance as the criteria to judge how the interns was doing with sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation.Through quantitative research by questionnaire survey analysis, I found that, the interns encountered some difficulties in intercultural adaptation:the first aspect is about sociocultural adaption, for example, diet, transportation, public health, social norms, religious activities and so on; the second aspect is about psychological adaption, for example, low-mood emotion, homesick, loneliness, anxiety,irritability and so on; the third aspect is about adaption to the teachers role, such as school management method, class discipline, Chinese test and so on. In addition to that, I analyzed the relationships between these variables by using EXCEL and SPSS data analysis software, then I made some assumptions and verified them. Here are my conclusions:The interns’sociocultural adaptation is positively correlated with psychological adaptation;2, the interns’early return intention is negatively correlated with sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation, teaching performance is positively correlated with sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation;3, there are no significant difference in sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation between interns who whether receive the intercultural training or not;4, integrated strategy has positive influence on the sociocultural adaptation, whereas other strategies don’t;5, the interns’sociocultural adaptation is positively correlated with the functional social support and emotional social support, the psychological adaptation is positively correlated with emotional social support.6, there is no significant correlation between the intern’s Indonesian language level and the degree of the sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation.Through depth interview for qualitative research,I explore in details and describe the interns’specific situation in the process of intercultural adaptation. Although the interns’intercultural adaptation situation have a lot in common, everyone’s feeling and experience are different from each other because of different personalities and different environment.Finally, this thesis put forward some suggestions and countermeasures about how to improve the interns’intercultural adjustment abilities from individual and external institutions.