The Meaning of Female Students’ Intercultural Communication
Keywords:
Intercultural Communication, Phenomenology, Islamic Boarding SchoolAbstract
Abstract. This study discusses the meaning of intercultural communication experiences among 12th-grade female students from outside West Java at Aisyiyah Boarding School Bandung. The phenomenon is based on cultural diversity in a boarding school environment where students interact intensively in academic, religious, and dormitory activities. Differences in language, accent, habits, and interaction styles influence students’ adaptation processes in their new social environment. This research uses a qualitative method with Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological approach. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The findings show that intercultural communication is interpreted as a process of social learning, social connectedness, and self-transformation. The students’ communication experiences began with confusion, fear, awkwardness, and passiveness, then gradually developed into courage to ask questions, understand cultural differences, and adjust themselves in daily interaction. Communication motives consist of because of motives, namely previous experiences and communication barriers, and in order to motives, namely the desire to be accepted, feel comfortable, build relationships, and develop in the boarding school environment.
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