Advisor ：Dr. Chin-Ying Lin Presenter ：Vivian Tsai June 8, 2009 Cross-Cultural Adjustment of the Native English-Speaking Teacher at School in Taiwan- A case Study Advisor ：Dr. Chin-Ying Lin Presenter ：Vivian Tsai June 8, 2009

Contents I Introduction II Purposes of the Study Research Questions III Research Questions Literature Review IV V Methodology 2

Introduction Background of the Study In academia, the emergence of globalization as a dominant discourse has generated heated debates on issues such as whether the world is becoming more homogenous or heterogeneous. (Ke, 2008) 3

Introduction Statement of the Problems There is a limited amount of research that has focused on native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) in Taiwan, especially related to their cross-cultural adjustment on educational organization and teaching. 4

Introduction Purposes of the Study to explore the notion of the factor---the cross-cultural adjustment of the native English-speaking teacher at schools in Taiwan to investigate the view with respect to educational administrators for the native English-speaking teachers in Taiwan 5

Introduction Research Questions How does the native English-speaking teacher adjust culture shock of at schools in Taiwan? What are the expectations between the native English-speaking teacher and the educational administrators in Taiwan? 6

Cross-cultural Adjustment Literature Review World Culture Academic Culture Culture in Organizations Cross-cultural Adjustment Culture in Educational Administration Culture Shock 7

Literature Review World Culture That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by human as a member of society. (Tylor, 2004) 8

Literature Review Academic Culture The miniaturization of the concept of culture so that researchers study and write about the culture of the school or even the culture of the classroom. (Scollon,1999) 9

Literature Review Culture in Organizations A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration. (Schein, 2002) 10

Literature Review Culture in Educational Administration Some characteristics of school culture that we tend to regard as fixed are attributable to differences in national culture and expectations. (Huberman, 2000) For instance, the Swiss traditionally prefer a homogeneous education, although their system is rather decentralized 11

Literature Review Cross-culture in Schools Cross-national different is in teaching, curriculum, and patterns of academic tracking that reflects differences in national culture and ideology. (Schmidt et al., 2006) 12

Literature Review Culture Shock Culture shock is becoming the intercultural competent consists of changing values, greater self-confidence, and a change in perspective. (Taylor, 2004) 13

Literature Review Cross-cultural Adjustment It follows logically that the various antecedents to adjustment may have different degrees of impact on each facet of adjustment. (Palthe, 2004) work, interaction, and general 14

Methodology Research Design Instrument Procedure 15

Methodology Case Study Method It refers to a method that complements survey and experimental techniques, one which provides detailed information about the research. (Gomm et al., 2000) 16

Methodology Qualitative approaches With qualitative approaches, respondents have more freedom to express their feelings, so cultural differences and cross-cultural adjustment could be better captured. (Barling et al., 2004) qualitative approaches emphasize description, understanding, and interpretation of the stressful events by interviewing subjects or using open-ended questionnaires (Parkes, 1985) 17

Methodology Social Validity Socially valid findings may be achieved through the use of participatory action research, which, in its theoretical orientation, helps bring the results of research closer to adoption. (Forster & Mash, 1999) because those who are ultimately called on to implement the new best practices were part of the process of validating those evidence-based practices 18

Methodology Subjective Judgment As one of social validity method, it is a popular method for quantifying subjective judgment utilizes the dominant eigenvector of a matrix of paired comparisons. (Schlosser, 2003) It is one of social validity method 19

Methodology Department of English at NTIT 20 Administrators Questionnaires NEST Interview National Taichung Institute of Technology 20

Methodology Instruments Documentary Analysis In-Depth Interview NEST Documentary Analysis Organizing Reading Description Classifying Interpretation In-Depth Interview Face-to-face interview Two hours and recorded Open-ended questions Follow-up interviews 21

Methodology Instruments 22 Administrators Questionnaires Educational organization and administration in schools Hiring the native English- speaking teachers in schools Administration assistants AE AH Teaching assistants TE TH Student assistants SE SH 22

Methodology Procedure Data Analysis 23 NEST Interview Administrators Questionnaires Data Analysis 23

Cross-Cultural Adjustment Methodology Data Analysis NEST Interview Part I NEST Interview Part II Research Q1 Cross-Cultural Adjustment 24

Viewpoints and Expectations Methodology Data Analysis NEST Interview Part I Administrators Questionnaires Part I+II Research Q2 Viewpoints and Expectations 25

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