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Culture Shock Experienced by Thailand Students At CULTURE SHOCK EXPERIENCED BY THAILAND STUDENTS AT ALAUDDIN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Humaniora in English and Literature Department of Faculty of Adab and Humanities of UIN Alauddin Makassar By EVA RAHMANIAR Reg. No. 40300111036 ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY ALAUDDIN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MAKASSAR 2015 MOTTO Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking, you might find a new solution (Maya Angelou) Where there is a will there is a way (Writer) ii PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN SKRIPSI Dengan penuh kesadaran penulis yang bertanda tangan dibawah ini, menyatakan bahwa skripsi ini benar adalah hasil karya penulis sendiri. Jika dikemudian hari terbukti ia merupakan duplikat, tiruan, plagiat atau dibuat oleh orang lain secara keseluruhan ataupun sebagian, maka skripsi ini dan gelar yang diperoleh batal demi hukum. Makassar, 18th Agustus 2015 Penulis Eva Rahmaniar 40300111036 ii iii iv v ACKNOWLEDGE All praises to Allah who has blessed, guided and given the health to the writer during writing this thesis. Then, the writer would like to send invocation and peace to prophet Muhammad SAW peace be upon him, who has guided the people from the bad condition to the better life. The writer realizes that in writing and finishing this thesis, there are many people that have provided their suggestion, advice, help and motivation. Therefore, the writer would like to express thanks and highest appreciation to all of them. For the first, the greatest thanks to the rector of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar, Prof. Dr. H. Musafir Pababari, M. Si, the dean of Adab and Humanities Faculty, Dr. H. Barsihannor, M.Ag., all the vices of dean of Adab and Humanities Faculty, Dra. Susmihara and Dr. Dahlan, M.Ag., the head and secretary of English and Literature Department, Dr. Abd. Muin, M.Hum., and Serliah Nur, S.Pd., M.Hum., M.Ed. for their support, suggestion, help and administrative support. Secondly, the writer‟s gratitude due to her first and second supervisors Serliah Nur, S.Pd., M.Hum., M.Ed., and Faidah Yusuf, S.S., M.Pd., for their guidance, support, advices and their precious time during writing this thesis. Furthermore, the writer would like to express thank to her first examiners Dr. Abd. Muin, M.Hum., and second examiner Dr. Hj.Nuri Emmiyati, M.Pd., for their guidance, correction, vii support and advices. Besides that the writer does not forget to say a lot of thanks to all the lecturers of English and Literature Department Syahruni Junaid, S.S., M.Pd.,Dr. Hj. Nur Emmiyati, M.Pd.,Muhammad Taufik, S.S., M.Hum.,A. Kamariah, S.Pd., M.Pd., Nur Rachma Isnaeni Hamka, S.Pd.I., M.Pd.for their patience in sharing knowledge to the writer during academic years. Thirdly, the writer gives special gratitude to her parents, Rahmatan and Roslaniar who have given their loves, cares, supports and prayers in every single time. Then, the writer gives thanks to her sister Evi Rahmaniar, Amd.Keb., and her uncle Supriadi Amd. Kep., that have motivated and supported the writer. Besides that, the deepest appreciation individually and collectively thanks to the students of English and Literature Department in 2011/2012 academic year from AG.1 until AG 6. Specially, to her friends in AG.3/4 for the togetherness that the writer passed in university. Furthermore, for dearest friends that always give support and help during writing this thesis, Aryana Nurul Qarimah, Anita, Widya Astuti, Indriani, Heraswanti Irda, Nuraliza, A. Jahria Melda, Irma Suryani Mardan, Nurhidayat Jf, A. Wana Nirwana, Ulfahany, A. Bunga Wati, Resky Amaliah, Ulfa Tussaliha, Hasniar, Ulil Inayah Mutmainnah, , Mukarramah, A. Tenri, A. Dandi Arsya Mirdad, Kurniawan P, Baso Muammar and all the friends that cannot be mentioned one by one. Next, the writer gives the deep appreciation and sincere to her best friend Widya Winarni, Suryanti, Marwisa, Sri Nengsih, and Agung Primadana for his viii support and prayer. Then, she thanks to her friends in KKNP Kanjilo that have motivated the writer. The last but not the least, the greatest thanks to Organization of Western English (OWL), Eliots Letters (EL), New Generation Club (NGC), PMII of Makassar and PMII of Gowa for the experience, knowledge, brotherhood, support and advice. Finally, may Allah reward the good condition that has been given to writer. While the writer realizes that this thesis is still far from being perfect but writer has tried to do her best. Makassar, 18th August, 2015 Eva Rahmaniar ix ABSTRACT Name : Eva Rahmaniar Reg. Number : 40300111036 Title :Culture Shock Experienced By Thailand Students at Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. Supervisor I : SerliahNur Supervisor II : Faidah Yusuf This research studied about culture shock experienced by Thailand students studying at Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. The aimed of this research were to describe and find out the process and the effects of culture shock experienced by Thailand students. This research used descriptive qualitative method and Collen Ward‟s Theory. Interview sheet as instrument of the research to seven respondents who are studying at Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar . The researcher found that there are four processes of culture shock experienced by Thailand students. Such as honeymoon phase is first stage because of infrastructure, hospitality, the custom, beautiful scenery, and learning process of the host country. The second is the crisis phases because of cross cultural differences in how people communicate. The third is recovery phases, where they began recovery to accept, to resolve and to adjust their cultural differences. Finally is adjustment phase where they were enjoyed and accepted the cultural differences in the new environment. The resercher also found two effects of culture shock experienced by Thailand students. They are positive and negative effect. Based on the finding and discussion, the researcher concluded that Thailand students at Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar experienced four processes and two effect of culture shock. The implication of this research is to give understanding about culture shock. Keywords: Culture Shock, Thailand students, Process, Effect. xiv CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This chapter consists of background, problem statement, objective, significance, and scope of the research. A. Background Globalization is an inevitable fact that has influence not only in business world but also in the education field. Nowadays, there are a lot of prestigious programs of enhancing education quality of globalization era. Start from a wide variety of extracurricular until the student exchange program. The international students who take the exchange program are known as learners and as an individual that live or reside temporarily in another foreign country rather than their countries that enable them to participate in international education. As international students to adjust their new educational and social environment, they experience unique stress. They who study abroad often experience difficulties in many areas of life, such as language differences, financial conditions, academic stress, homesickness and social relationships with native students (Furnham and Bochner 1986: 41). Encountering new culture results the new and the interesting experience. Nevertheless, the process of encountering is usually accompanied with a phenomenon of culture shock especially when a sojourner stays abroad for a longer period of time. Cultural shock can make one loss his sense of well-being and it can result to anxiety, 1 2 misunderstanding new things, diverse experiences and all these can lead to depression (Omadona, 2011:4). The predominance of international student enrolments that take exchange student program from Asia is significant. As the Ministry of Religion through the Directorate General of Islamic Education receives and provides full scholarship to 50 students from Thailand. This scholarship is part of the realizations of cooperation between the Ministry of Religion and Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) kingdom of Thailand. Ministry of Religion has provided scholarship to 50 Thailand students with composition 25 students for undergraduate, 15 students for postgraduate, and 15 students for postgraduate, and 10 students for doctor degree. Dede Rosyada, The director of Islamic Higher Education, said that “50 students will be studying in six of State Islamic Universities in Indonesia. They are State Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta (10 students), State Islamic University of Syarif Qasim Riau (8 students), State Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaya Yogyakarta (8 students), State Islamic University of Alauddin Makassar (8 students), State Islamic University of Sunan Gunung Jati Bandung (8 students), State Islamic University of Maliki Malang (8 students)” (Rahmawati, 2014: 1). The purpose of the thesis is to describe the phenomenon of culture shock. This study specifically looks at the stage or process and the effect of culture shock of student‟s experienced. All sojourners go through all stages even if they stay in the new culture is limited. The stages of culture shock should be understood, which can 3 help people predict the difficulties they may experience in a new cultural environment. Based on the explanation above, the writer interested in investigating the culture
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