Self-Exploration for Becoming: Experience as an International Student

Language, Culture, identity, difference, their mutual relationship, representation, auto-ethnography

Authors

  • Zualfiqar Ali PhD Scholar at Institute of Education and Research, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
  • Saima Shaehzad
  • Sumaia Azhar
  • Muhammad Suleman Khan BUITEMS Sub Campus Muslim Bagh

Abstract

The relationship of language, culture, identity and difference is so complicated that it becomes almost impossible to understand one without understanding others. Mutual interdependence of language and culture has huge impact on worldview of a particular community. Since, systematic organizational language components have specific meanings to worldview. Being repeatedly or usually used by specific cultural members these meaning shapes world view of those specific cultural members. We may say that if two cultural communities speak two different languages, definitely, they would have different worldview from each other due to the difference in the languages they speak as every language has a specific culture and meaning of the language components (Spair-Whorf hypothesis, Kramsch, 1998).

The current study is an auto-ethnography of the researcher to comprehend the language, culture, identity, difference, mutual relationship, and representation. It is coupled with the reflection on a lived experience in Australia during the Master of TESOL program based on the above-discussed concepts. It is followed by the implication for teaching and learning and the conclusion.

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2022-12-31

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Ali, Z., Shaehzad, S. ., Azhar, S., & Suleman Khan, M. (2022). Self-Exploration for Becoming: Experience as an International Student: Language, Culture, identity, difference, their mutual relationship, representation, auto-ethnography. Journal of Education And Humanities Research (JEHR), University of Balochistan, Quetta, 14(2), 183–191. Retrieved from http://jehronline.uob.edu.pk/journal/index.php/jehr/article/view/373

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