THE ROLE OF CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING FOR EFL STUDENTS IN REDUCING INTERACTION PROBLEMS

Abstract

Abstract
Every country has its own caracteristic and culture. Sometimes it makes some problems for foreigners
to make imeraction and communication. Its contradisction sometimes will make some problems such
as inner conflict, frustation, miss understanding in communicaton goal even shock. It will be
happened mostly for those who always think that their own culture is better than the others so they
dislike or refuse even blame other cultures which do not match with them. If it happened it will show
the gap and conflict between them even seriously big problems later. This problem can appear country
and culture shock. This case must be avoided because it can cause some effects one of them they will
not accept in certain community even because of the high speed of information in other communities
and bad justification to them along their lives. This study intended to how the CCU can overcome the
shock and country problems that impact in interaction and relationship based on the fact the in
teraction today it i not limited widely not just in a country. Based on anlysis, the important of this case
are learners must be learn another culture, custome, habit, perception etc and want to accept them as
the differences, respect others with all differences as the effect of differences of thingking and
throwing away that the own culture is always better. By learning CCU it will effect the understanding
of learnersin accepting those differences. It will be the important effort to eliminate the
misundestanding, schock culture and nation event the bad sense or feeling to the others, therefore
CCU is important taught for ESL
Keywords : CCU, EFL students, interaction problems, reducing problems