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, communication effectively among people of different
cultures has become one of the pretty challenging things.