Comunicacion Intercultural

Method
To understand the importance of intercultural communication, a group of international students at Park University will be studied as well as US students that have done studies abroad. Theresearch will consist in a series of questions regarding their adaptation in the new country, the new environment and the new culture, some difficulties that the student experienced at the beginning andhow this relates to the way the student communicated when he/she first arrived. The questions will be asked in a survey that will have different types of questions in order to collect qualitative andquantitative data. After gathering all the information an analysis of the data will be done to know if the data was reliable and valid to answer the research question for this paper of howintercultural communication is important for students living in a foreign country.








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