Culture Shock and its impacts on L2 acquisition



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Culture shock ppt

  • Culture Shock
  • Kristin Dowrey
  • Gary Bleedorn II

Introduction

  • What is Culture shock?
  • Why is it a problem for educators?
  • What are some strategies for minimizing the effects of culture shock?

Culture Shock is:

  • The term, culture shock, was introduced for the first time in 1958 by Kalervo Oberg. Today we understand culture shock as a reaction people experience when faced with cultural realities that differ from their own personal expectations and norms.

Oberg’s Stages

  • 1. Honeymoon/Tourist Stage.
  • 2.Culture shock/rejection
  • 3. Recovery
  • 4. Adjustment/Acculturation

Contributing factors

  • Ethnocentrism
  • Tendency to stereotype
  • Low levels of similarities in beliefs, values, norms, and attitudes
  • Misinterpretations of behaviors and intentions of the other cultural group
  • Motivations for/ traumas associated with traveling to the new culture

Causes:

  • Unfamiliarity with the new culture and surroundings
  • Inability to effectively use or understand new language and cultural symbols
  • Discrepancies between the demands of new situations and the resources for dealing with them
  • Cognitive fatigue

Culture Shock is Manifested:

  • Mentally
  • Emotionally
  • Physically

Symptoms

  • Difficulty in focusing and processing/retaining new information
  • Small aches, pains, and new allergies.
  • Sleeping too much or too little.
  • Feeling sad, depressed, vulnerable, powerless.
  • Decreased confidence, increased apathy
  • Developing stereotypes of the dominant culture

Potential Problems for Educators

  • Raising Krashen’s affective filter
    • High Anxiety
    • Low Motivation
    • Low Self-confidence
  • Misinterpretation of culture shock side effects as products of learning disabilities
  • Physical effects that result in frequent absences

More problems

  • Housing problems
  • Economic problems
  • Nutrition problems
  • Health problems
  • Transportation

Cultural Awareness of Communication

  • Everything that occurs with in school involves communication
  • Communication through oral and written symbols
  • Communication through non verbal symbols

How to Combat Culture Shock As a Teacher

  • Create a comfortable and accepting environment in the classroom
  • Don’t make assumptions
  • Get to know your students and their unique situations
  • Don’t give up on a student

Bibliography

  • Berry, J W. (1970) Marginality, stress and ethnic identification in an acculturated aboriginal community. Journal of cross Cultural Psychology, 1. 239-252
  • DeCapua, Andrea and Wintergerst Ann. 2004 Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press,.
  • Furnham, Adrian and Bochner, Stephen.(1986) Culture Shock: Psychological reactions to Unfamiliar Environments University Press Cambridge London, New York
  • Guanipa, Carmen. "CULTURE SHOCK". Dept. of Counseling and School Psychology. 11/24/2008 .
  • Lynch, Elanor and Hanson, Marci. Developing Cross-Cultural Competence. Baltimore: Paul Brookes Publishing Co., 1998.
  • Lysgaard, S. (1955). Adjustment in a foreign society: Norwegian fullbrite grantees visiting the united states. International Social Science Bulletin 7, 45-51.
  • The U-Curve of Adjustment. Retrieved November 29, 2008, from Culture Shock: 2 Web site: http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/990

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