To Future Study: Clarifying the Layers of International Experiences

Some literature suggests that international experiences are beneficial for cultural ability development. However, the term, international experience, has broad implications. This study defined international experiences as having experiences of being/living abroad or contact with international people and found that these experiences did not have significant relationships with the two characteristics that were related to cultural ability. Such a result from the model in this study should not be used to reject the benefits of international experiences identified in the number of previous studies. However, this calls for a more careful re-examination regarding how we define international experiences, and how learning really occurs based on those experiences as they happen in an international context. While some practitioners believed that learning would naturally and automatically happen when people tried to survive in a different and difficult environment, more studies should continue to uncork this perceived automatic learning process and explore its critical factors.

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