Suchergebnisse

To gain international recognition, many universities in Indonesia offer international student exchange programs, one of which is the credit transfer program. Participants in that program have differences in communicative competence. That holds for Indonesian students studying abroad and vice versa. This study analyzes the intercultural communication skills of international students and aims to acquire comprehensive information on intercultural competencies based on the students' intercultural sensitivity, awareness and adroitness. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted among international students at one university in Indonesia, involving six French students from the student exchange program who studied for one semester. The data was obtained via focused group discussion and interviews. Chen and Starosta's intercultural competence model was used as an analytical tool. The findings indicate that the students have proper intercultural communication competence, which helps them in implementing their communication strategies, adjusting to and thriving in a new cultural and academic environment.

This French language training is based on the limited ability of foreign languages other than English, namely French for tour guides in Pangandaran Regency. Until now there has been no formal education institution that provides French language in Pangandaran Regency, even though this area is an important tourist destination for West Java which is visited by many french tourists in 2019 (see Nurroni, 2019). Meanwhile, according to BAPPEDA West Java Provincial Government, this regency will become an international class tourist destination in 2021-2025. Departing from this goal, this service program provides training in French Tourism which can provide insight into french language skill to tour guides in Pangandaran Regency so that it will lead to improving the quality of their languages. This service aims to 1) provide French Tourism training for tour guides in Pangandaran Regency; 2) conduct a simulation of the jeux de rôles-actes de parole technique (role play-technical speaking acts) based on local wisdom of Pangandaran Regency. Based on the results of the training, tour guides in Pangandaran Regency are familiar with the French alphabet and numbers, are able to carry out simple conversations, and introduce tourist objects in Pangandaran in a simple manner