Intercultural Communication

1.0 Introduction

This study aims to examine the challenges faced by international students in Malaysia. Throughout the study, the international students face several of challenges such as adapting to food and beverage, weather, financial arrangements, health care, accommodation and local languages, as well as the financial and language restrictions increase the difficulty for new recruits. The poor level of English language proficiency restricts the ability of international students to fully participate in learning. International students’ failure to communicate with local people may lead to culture shock and poor communication, resulting in lack of social support. Failure to adapt to a new environment will experience psychological symptoms

On the other hand, it was used for non-native linguistic ecology, usually was a multilingual environment. These ecosystems were originally colonized by the America and Britain and now belong to the new Commonwealth countries or independent countries such as India, Malaysia, Africa, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In these cases, English is used as a second language. Countries where there was no colony but English is used as a foreign language, such as Russia, Germany, Poland, Belgium, China, Egypt, and

For example, the communication between Fulani and Tiffany cultural groups is intercultural communication because it crosses the boundaries of culture. Therefore, intercultural communication can be defined as "sharing different cognitive and control information in different cultural backgrounds among people of different cultural backgrounds, different cultural backgrounds including national cultural differences and differences in national units involved in different activities" (Jens Allwood, 1985). "Intercultural communication occurs when individuals affected by different cultural communities share meaning in their interactions" (Jens Allwood,