Abstract:
This study is entitled "Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Foreign Teachers Teaching in Secondary Schools of Chonburi Province". The objectives of this thesis were: 1) to compare the foreign teachers differences regarding their personal factors (gender, age, cultural background, period of residence in Thailand) with cross-cultural adaptation; and 2) to analyze the relation of the foreign teachers interaction in the organization and cross-cultural adaptation. This thesis mainly contained two assumptions: 1) Foreign teachers with different personal factors have different cross-cultural adaptations; and 2) the interaction in the organization is related to cross-cultural adaptation (personal, social, and overall factor) of foreign teachers. The methodology of this thesis was the quantitative research method. The survey was conducted using questionnaires that were analyzed by descriptive statistics (composed of frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics which used the t-test, One-Way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The analyzed results of this thesis found the following: 1. Foreign teachers regarding their different cultural background had a different cross-cultural adaptation, while the differences in gender, age, and period of residence in Thailand did not differ in cross-cultural adaptation significantly at the 0.05 level; 2. The interaction in the organization positively related to the foreign teachers cross-cultural adaptation in terms of personal, social, and overall factor. It was found that the rate of cross-cultural adaptation increased highly based on the amount of interaction in organization.