Cultural differences,Self confidence ,
Paper details:
Running head: LIVING ABROAD??1
Self v. Culture: Living Abroad
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Reasons why people go abroad
i. Education
ii. Job
iii. Refugees
B. Thesis Statement
People living abroad, regardless of the reason, are faced with a conflict between themselves and the culture of the countries into which they move.
II. Literature Review
A. Cultural awareness
i. The effect of language on culture.
a) How people who live abroad exploit language awareness.
ii. Intercultural communication
iii. Fremdverstehen (understanding the other)
B. Social Interaction and Dialogic Approach
i. People acquire cultural values and interactive rules of communication by interacting with others.
ii. Some skills are acquired from interacting with a particular culture.
a) Gestures, proxemics, and rules of interaction.
iii. Others, even though they may be acquired in the context of a particular language, may be totally independent of that language
a) Attitudes, mediation skills, the ability to relativize one’s point of view.
iiii. According to Bakhtin (1981), one of the essential features of language is that meaning is produced in the responsive interaction between at least two social beings.
v. People living abroad may find themselves learning a foreign language. However, their learning experience is easier if they interact with native speakers.
C. Interaction with Peers
i. People living abroad get their motivation from socializing with people from their own cultures who they find abroad.
ii. Through this interaction, their confidence to interact with people from other cultures increases and thus, they understand and learn to communicate more effectively.
III. Conclusion
A. Restatement of Thesis statement.
B. Summary of the main points discussed in the paper.
IIII. References
