Japanese students in Prague. Problems of communication and interaction

Participants in intercultural contact situations experience communication & interaction "problems." They also derive "gratification" as a result of positive evaluations. This paper presents a survey of 10 Japanese students of the Czech language who stayed in Prague & at various other locations in the Czech Republic over the summer vacation. The method used in this paper was the "interaction interview" & concentrated on actual behavior of the students, as opposed to reports based on questionnaires or traditional interviews, on a single day of their stay. The study shows that "problems" as well as "gratifications" actually occur & offers a number of observations on the processes involved. The author's ultimate concern is with policies but the paper also attends to a number of more general theoretical & methodological issues. 1 Table, 18 References. Adapted from the source document.