Author(s)

Fangyi Hu ¹, Fengmei Jiang ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ International College, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde, Hunan, China
² College of Foreign Languages, Changsha University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Corresponding Author

Fengmei Jiang

ABSTRACT

Under the background of internationalization, the communication between countries is more and more close, which requires the cross-cultural adaptability(CCA) of talents. The cultivation of CCA of application-oriented university students has a great impact on their future development. The cultural foundation of application-oriented university students is relatively weak, but their practical ability is very strong, which requires changing the traditional talent training objectives, combining the characteristics of application-oriented university students and the training objectives of CCA, promoting the effective combination of theory and practice, and improving the effectiveness of CCA training. This paper mainly studies the cultivation of CCA of application-oriented university students under the background of internationalization. This paper analyzes the causes of cross-cultural maladjustment, and then puts forward some measures to cultivate students' CCA in application-oriented universities. In order to understand the problems of application-oriented university students' specific cross-cultural adaptation, this paper adopts the form of questionnaire survey. The results show that the most common problem of application-oriented university students in cross-cultural adaptation is the language problem which accounts for 27%, followed by the interpersonal problem which accounts for 23%, which is also caused by the differences of language and culture in the final analysis. In addition, there are still work situation problems accounting for 13%, psychological problems accounting for 12%, problems caused by natural environment accounting for 11%, problems caused by daily life accounting for 9%, and values problems accounting for 5%.

KEYWORDS

Cross-cultural adaptability, communicative competence, application-oriented universities, international background

CITE THIS PAPER

Fangyi Hu, Fengmei Jiang. Cultivation of Cross-cultural Adaptability of Application-oriented University Students under the Background of Internationalization. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2021) 5: 102-109. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2021.57016

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