Student Exchange Year

A survey regarding high school students' foreign exchange years.

Questionnaire results are available only to the author

Confronting a new environmentMisunderstanding or wrongly predicting the behaviors of othersbeing misunderstood or having your own behaviors misinterpretedemotional instabilitya feeling of needing to modify your natural behaviors to conform with your new environmenta loss of familiar cuesa feeling of alienationFrustration or anxiety linked to communicationIdentity crisis

Student Exchange Year

What country are you from?

What was your host country during your exchange year?

Was this your first time visiting a foreign country?

If you had previously been to another foreign country, how long did you stay there and what was the main purpose of your travels? ie: Tourism, Visiting family/friends, Academic Fieldtrip, etc.

To what extent had you researched the culture of your host country prior to arrival?

Did you already know the native language of your host country prior to arrival? If not, how long did it take until you were able to understand communications in your host country?

Please explain any symptoms of "culture shock" that you experienced?

Please select any of the following attributes of culture shock that you felt in your host country.

How well do you think you now know the culture of your host country?

In what ways did your exchange year help you to develop your character or grow as an individual?

In what ways do you feel that you cultivated a stronger sense of intercultural competence? In other words, how are you now more capable of understanding other cultures in general?