Intercultural Communication Experience Of UHAMKA Mobility Students At The Universiti Utara Malaysia

silih warmi, ph.d; nurhandayani supraptiningsih, m.pd;

Arif Harmantho. 1501055024. Intercultural Communication Experience of
UHAMKA Mobility Students at The Universiti Utara Malaysia. Skripsi, Jakarta:
The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2019.
This qualitative research was designed to investigate intercultural communication
experience of UHAMKA mobility students at the Universiti of Utara Malaysia.
The data of this research was collected through in-depth interviews based on
superficial causes and minimum - maximum boundaries of communication set by
Gudykunst’s Anxiety Uncertainty Management (AUM) theory. The study utilized
four in-depth interviews to collect the data from four female former UHAMKA
mobility students. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis
(Familiarization, coding, generating themes, reviewing themes, defining, and
naming themes). The findings indicated that the positivity of former UHAMKA
mobility students’ perception of intercultural communication. Meanwhile, there
are five encouraging factors (share mutual interests, benefiting academically,
improving language skills, increasing host cultural awareness, and encountering
considerate people) and four discouraging factors (negative stereotypes, distracted
from priority, lack of self-confidence, and language barriers) frequently
mentioned by former UHAMKA mobility students