CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES OF INTERNATIONAL CREDIT TRANSFER STUDENTS STKIP PGRI SUMATERA BARAT WITH FATONI UNIVERSITY THAILAND STUDENTS

Abstract

Exchange Program Students or called Credit Transfer International, which activity is to allow students to take the eyes of college degrees higher outside the country. By the terms, already doing work equally among college high to carry out an exchange student program. One of them is the STKIP PGRI West Sumatra in Credit Transfer Program to Fatoni University, Thailand which was carried out in 2020, even though during the COVID-19 period. Barriers to communication between cultures have appeared in every aspect, this is caused by differences in culture, differences in how to think, how to see, how to hear, and translating languages, so the case is to be interpreted differently by cultures other, even. When the difference in language in a class, then by this translation should be required, so that the potential mistake of misunderstanding does not occur. Therefore, the communication effective among people of different cultures become one of the things that are pretty challenging.