Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: An Analysis of Culture Shock Faced by 60th-61th PIBBI Students
ABSTRACT
This study attempts to discover the culture shock encountered by PIBBI 60th and 61th
students in Language Training Centre, Satya Wacana Christian University. It would focus on the
culture shock problems they get, and the way of adjusting various conflicts. In collecting data,
the writer used open-ended questionnaire to acquire the information. The participants of this
research were 14 foreign students, 8 males and 6 females, from Australia, Japan, America whose
age ranges from 18 to 32. The result of this study shows that the PIBBI students experienced
culture shock. Foreigner students would face problem related to food, transportation, values,
language, environment condition, pollution, people and climate. These problems would be
solved when they got used to the new cultural ways of the natives.
Key words : culture shock, foreign students, strategies,
This study attempts to discover the culture shock encountered by PIBBI 60th and 61th
students in Language Training Centre, Satya Wacana Christian University. It would focus on the
culture shock problems they get, and the way of adjusting various conflicts. In collecting data,
the writer used open-ended questionnaire to acquire the information. The participants of this
research were 14 foreign students, 8 males and 6 females, from Australia, Japan, America whose
age ranges from 18 to 32. The result of this study shows that the PIBBI students experienced
culture shock. Foreigner students would face problem related to food, transportation, values,
language, environment condition, pollution, people and climate. These problems would be
solved when they got used to the new cultural ways of the natives.
Key words : culture shock, foreign students, strategies,