Acculturation and Second Language Competencies in International Students from Korea

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Research proposal on people with second language competence are more acculturate to new
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Introduction
In this research proposal it will focus on the individuals with the second language competence if
they are more acculturate to new culture. The target for this research is the international students
from Koreans (Bartlett, Mendenhall & Ghaffar-Kucher, 2017). The learners who begin to gain
second language competences are thought to be constrained by the biological factors and they
have a greater difficulty when it comes to obtaining the native like second language.
Nevertheless, the extent of the literature usually highlights that the second language
competencies could be impacted positively by the post maturational aspects for example the
acculturation (Bartlett, Mendenhall & Ghaffar-Kucher, 2017). In the study it would examine the
relationship between the acculturation and the second language competencies on the
international students from Korea (Grosjean, 2015). The Korea students who arrive in the USA
in the middle and high school were examined to see whether the acculturation process towards
the USA society could be associated with the higher speaking competencies levels and more like
native pronunciation of the English Language.
Literature review
In the review of the literature it will discuss on different research done by different authors on
the relationship of the acculturation and second language competencies to the international
students from Korea.
Rationale for the study
The study should be carried out in order to discuss on the acculturation and second language
competencies in the international students (Sam & Berry, 2010). There is little research which
has been done in this field and through this one it would provide insight knowledge and add

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literature to the existing study. The study will need to happen in order to provide more
knowledge in this area of research since it has been limited when it comes to acculturation
(Hammer & Dewaele, 2015). The process of the acculturation has become the core of the interest
as a number of the cross-cultural travellers have increased in the last decades (Sam & Berry,
2010).
When individuals move to a new culture they experience new aspects in order to adjust to the
new culture and its members (Hammer & Dewaele, 2015). One of such aspects is the acquisition
of the competencies of that host country. The linguistics has considered the second language
acquisition to be an integral part when it comes to the acculturation. Second language
competencies are attained through the social as well as affective integration of the second
language individuals with the target language acculturation (Hammer & Dewaele, 2015). There
has been an extensive research which has been carried out which calls for the greater recognition
of significant of the social and the psychological variables in the facilitating integration as well
as acquiring second language. The central role to the social as well as the emotional variables in
facilitating acculturation has been given the priority to account for success in the second
language acculturation.
Acculturation research first began in the 30s. It has endured in the field of the cultural
anthropology which places a great focus to the interaction between the nations and on the
immigrants’ personal level of the changes for example the changes in the attitudes, behaviors,
values and beliefs (Hammer & Dewaele, 2015). The basic changes to the acculturation research
gave rise to the foundation of the marginality theory which addressed on the negative
ramifications of the acculturation (Sam & Berry, 2010). Some studies have investigated how
learning second language degree of acculturation impacts the language acquisition competencies