communication and behavior

As my friends said, different cultures have different way of communication and behavior. This one is another problem that all of the international students face with it in new country. Here there is an example of this problem. In 2000, Jenny K reported that International student from Asia countries are often stereotyped as quiets, reserved and non-assertive. These cultures place a compulsion on harmony and respect for authorities. Therefore, many of them are disinclined to share their feeling or emotion, express their opinions or oppositions to anyone, especially to authority figures. Thus instead of emphasizing personal right and assertive communication, Asians tend to emphasize of patience, harmony, respect and deference. Oftentimes, international students struggle between the balance of acculturation and maintaining their own culture. The process of acculturation and adjustment can be stressful. The difference between two cultures can cause a student to experience significant intrapersonal and interpersonal problem and conflicts. Because of these different in culture sometimes students and lecturers have problem for communicate. This situation is same when people go to other country for study and it doesn't matter that which country they go just in different country according to the cultural of that country these effect will be increase or decrease.

Adertisements and cultural shock.

As all of us may know advertisements play the biggest role in today’s societies. They can easily change our minds, prove us that something good is bad, show us we really need some products, make backgrounds for us and etc. lots of international students rely on the advertisements of universities to chose them and select them for their higher education. Advertisements talk about cultures, facilities, majors and so on. When students believe them and go overseas for higher education, they really have made the imaginary picture of a place they are going to. But as they enter the host country, they encounter with totally different situations. At first, problems are hidden because of the new environment and attractiveness. After 2 or 3 month, students will recognize their imagination of the place they wanted to be educated in is amazingly different from the reality. Smoothly, dissatisfactions show off. Because they will believe that the university told them lies in its advertisement.
How do you think? Do you think advertisements about all the aspect of the universities (from languages, behaviors, cultures and finance) can shape the reality for students?

Talking in local languages in an international class by lecturers is cultural shock.

Based on the findings,one of the important things that most of the students were not satisfied with was talking in Malay in front of international students.It is one of the student's concern which causes dissatisfaction.every international student comes to an international university to learn in English.So,talking in Malay or any other local languages in the class might cause disappointment and dissatisfaction.This is cultural shock for international students.They suddenly find themselves among some people who are talking in a language that they have no idea about.Some of the international students make themselves ready to confront different behaviors that they have not seen before.They think that they are ready to come to an international university and country to learn.However,they see some behaviors that they did not expect at all.it means that no matter how well you are prepared, there are many things in a culture that you cannot find in books or internet.
At first, dealing with cultural shock is difficult for international students.However,as time passes some of the international students learn how to deal with it.There are some students who cannot deal with it and come back to their home or try to make friends with people who are coming from their own country.

Culture shock is cause which make separate between lecturer and students.

The relationships between lecturer and international students are rather weak because of different culture and language. The students who come from different country have different behavior. It’s hard for communication and understanding who has different style with our self even if lecturers and students. The main point that separate between lecturers and students are communication. Even though they are using English language to be main language, but it’s still not useful as their own language. Sometime it got some miss take from this point. Another reason which separate between lecturers and students are culture shock which is can happen since first time when they arrived to another country. The culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown culture such as one may encounter in a foreign country. It grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new culture, causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. This is often combined with a dislike for or even disgust (moral or aesthetical) with certain aspects of the new or different culture. (refer from Wikipedia). It’s because of these cause that make students feel resist everything and also hard to understand. I found 2 video that taking about culture shock and I think it can help us to understand what is cause of culture shock as well.

culture shock presentation part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfB6GIjM9Q&feature=player_embedded

culture shock presentation part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82IFq0HbTQ&feature=player_embedded

The relationship between lecturers and students

The relationship between lecturers and students at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia : a comparison between three faculties

 

This article attempted to explore the different kinds of relationship existing between lecturers and students across three faculties at the University of Gadjah Mada and the factors influencing these relationships.
The research data which we collected in the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Economics and in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences by conducting qualitative interviews with lecturers and students and by doing participant observation in these faculties showed us that different norms determining the relationship between lecturers and students in the different faculties can exist within one university.
Bourdieu’s theories help us to understand why faculties within a university differ from each other substantially. In his opinion the upper classes manipulate the education system through economic means, i.e. through the demands of the labour market. We observed in our research that the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Economics had stronger connections to governmental and non-governmental institutions than the Faculty of Cultural Sciences. They also had higher tuition fees than the Faculty of Cultural Sciences and were able to offer their students better studying conditions with regard to classrooms, libraries, internet facilities etc. Thus, Bourdieu’s thesis can be confirmed. In this case the upper classes manipulate the university education system through their connections to and investments in the different faculties.
Due to the limited time for our research, we were unable to explore all the possible factors determining the lecturer-student relationship, such as the gender aspect. Nevertheless, we were able to identify the following factors. Firstly, the relationship is affected by the faculties’ teaching and learning methods. As the example of the Faculty of Medicine showed, the use of PBL lowered the total duration of the communication time between lecturers and students. In this faculty students had less contact with their lecturers as the PBL method aims to encourage the students to learn more by discussing problems among themselves.
The time allotted to communication is also affected by the lecturers’ busy schedules. Both in the Faculty of Medicine and in the Faculty of Economics some lecturers were engaged in research projects issued by the government or by external institutions. In the Faculty of Medicine the lecturers worked in the hospital after they finished teaching. The lecturers in the Faculty of Economics were forced to teach longer hours in order to increase their salaries. Due to these factors the time that a lecturer spends to supervise
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his/her students is reduced. In both of these faculties the students had a formal relationship with their lecturers. They very rarely met for non-academic activities.
On the other hand, the relationship between lecturers and students in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences was more informal. This might be due to the departments’ subjects taught in this faculty which are related to culture and people, or it might result from the fact that the lecturers had more time to spend with their students compared with the lecturers of the Faculties of Medicine and Economics.
Nevertheless, the three faculties shared some similarities with regard to the lecturer-student relationship, such as the fact that the students did not criticize their lecturers or that the younger lecturers did not criticise the older lecturers because it would have been impolite according to Javanese culture. Another similarity was that the students had difficulties in implementing the student-centered learning methods probably because, throughout their childhood and also in the schools, they were not taught to take on their own responsibilities.
In summary, the relationship between lecturers and students at the University of Gadjah Mada is shaped by the faculties’ teaching and learning methods, as well as the faculties’ connections to the government and other institutions, the faculties’ subjects, Javanese cultural norms, school education, the experiences of the lecturers who had studied abroad and the personalities of lecturers and students alike.

source: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/3160/

by: Taniar Rachma P

Evaluating System

I was writing an article about Student Evaluation of Lecturers.However,it is not a complete article,but it may help us in a way we want.I thought it is a good Idea to have that system to find out about lecturers quality. However, the system must be in a confidential way to make students feel safe.Mose of the students do not like to mention their names.As it has been refereed in the article evaluation system has become very popular among the universities. it has been caused a big competition among them.The second thing which has been refereed to is,evaluating lecturers by students performance in their final examinations.I think it may not be a good idea,because,all students are not same and as intelligent as another.We cannot say that it is not a beneficial way,but it cannot be as beneficial as the general way of evaluation.Everyone's intelligent quality is different to another.
The Article address has been uploaded below.You can read it and leave your comments.
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LJbQ6bRrTvck5ZQCscDD2n0FJ2Q6PqLcS6pVLM8H0yGVVZgmx1hp!-522989652!-2073591579?docId=76954108
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The conection between lecturers and students in Multimedia University

Hello everyone.
In this blog we try to consider the connection between lecturers and student.
There are a few important issues that should be considered.first of all,everyone should know about different kinds of relationships and connection between lecturers and students.It has been said that the connection between lecturers and local students is more friendlier than the international students.The other important issue that should be considered is the specific teaching and learning method.The effects of learning and teaching methods on the connection between teachers and students will be considered as well.How a relationship can be professional as well as friendly and fair?