Corelarea conceptului de inteligență culturală (CQ) cu șocul cultural, la studenții internaționali înmatriculați în anul pregătitor de limba română
The correlation of the cultural intelligence concept (CQ) with culture shock, in the case of international students enrolled with the Foundation Year of Romanian as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: The concept of cultural intelligence (CQ) represents the ability of the individuals to relate and act efficiently in cultural contexts different from the ones in which students usually act. Although traditionally the concept of cultural intelligence 9CQ) measures the intellectual performance, in contexts related especially to the economic field, allowing the successful accomplishment of contacts between culturally different business people, it can represent a starting point and support for the correlation of indicators such as empathy, ttrust, emotional intelligence, in the case of international students who choose to study Romanian as a foreign language, as a starting point of their future career. The present study starts from the definition of culture shock for international students that choose to study in a totally different cultural environment from the national one, explaining different stages that they experience, offering information about the techniques for the successful management of this experience and an analysis if the way in which culture shock can be correlated with cultural intelligence (CQ). The research is based on the specific case studies of international students enrolled in the foundation year of Romanian as a foreign language at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, talking about the initial culture shock, management and then mastering of adaptation in the Romanian environment, highlighting the progress that can be observed in the case of these international students along the two semesters of immersion into the Romanian culture.

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