Komunikasi Antarbudaya Mahasiswa Rantau dalam Menghadapi Culture Shock di Madura

Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out the intercultural communication description of cross-cultural student who has experience a culture shock in Madura. This research used the qualitative descriptive method of data analysis of Miles and Huberman also in-depth interview as a data collection method. The planned-unstructured interview was chosen for the research. The interview process was carried out according to the several predetermined questions and did not focus on the format that had been made. The data collection involved some cross-cultural students in Madura especially Bangkalan  Regency as a interviewees. The result revealed that in regards to adapt and faced a culture shock, the students in Madura carried out several forms of intercultural communication, including, verbal and nonverbal communication, acculturation, tolerance of pluralism, and intercultural social and the same culture communication that applied in a new place.