Understanding German Cross-Cultural Communication to Enhance BIPA Teacher Competence

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_63How to use a DOI?

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German cross-cultural communication; Intracultural competence; Stereotypes; Value

ABSTRACT

The incompetence of BIPA teachers to understand the culture of their students is one of the causes of the failure in BIPA teaching and learning process. Therefore, intracultural competence is a substantial component to the teaching competence of BIPA teachers. Germany is a country with a great number BIPA institutions for the European scope. There are at least fifteen BIPA institutions spread across the region, including Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, München, Leipzig, Passau, Konstanz, Frankfurt, Köln, Heidelberg, Koblenz, Freiburg, Göttingen, and Bonn. Thus, understanding German cross-cultural communication becomes a material that BIPA teachers for German students need to accomplish. This study discusses German cross-cultural communication consisting of verbal communication, non-verbal communication, stereotypes, and values adopted by Germans using the cross-cultural communication theory of Samovar et al. (2016) and Mulyana (2015). Qualitative method was implemented in this research through note-taking and questionnaire techniques. The data sources were posts about German cross-culturalism available on various social media, from German people, and from the German diaspora. The results of this study indicated that there are differences in the use of dialect and language in verbal and non-verbal communication in Germany. It becomes very complex because of the different cultures, dialects, history, and traditions of each state (Bundesländer). This research can be a guide for BIPA teachers who have students with German cultural background to determine the proper communication strategy.

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AU  - Nuny Sulistiany Idris
AU  - Vietcia Ratu Meiruly Annisa
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Understanding German Cross-Cultural Communication to Enhance BIPA Teacher Competence
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 401
EP  - 406
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_63
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_63
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