<研究論文>異文化間接触と「緩衝機能」:在日留学生の事例を通して

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The function of facilitating and mediaing differences between two cultures is important in the adjustment of foreign students because they need not only to keep their original culture but also to acquire a new host culture. In my previous studies, ten different kinds of function were identified and were named 'buffering functions' for the adjustment processes of foreign students in Japan. Each of the buffering functions works differently in four stages of time (background, preparation, beginning, and establishing stages), in three life-spheres (family, study, and friendship spheres) and in three social network patterns (monocultural, bicultural and multicultural networks). The adjustment of each foreign student depends on which network is central to the student during the preparation stage, and on which life-sphere is the most central to him/her during the establishing stage. In summary, for the buffering functions to be effective during the preparation and establishing stages, it is essential for host people (Japanese) to deal with foreign students flexibly in a variety of situations, such as promoting contact between foreign students and Japanese at the beginning of their new life, establishing support systems for the foreign students with unstable lives, allowing for some differences or difficulties foreign students have in the study sphere, and understanding each other through daily contact.
岩手県立大学の論文
1999-03-31