Cross Culture Understanding as A Source of Communication Material at Foreign Language Course in Malang Raya

ross culture understanding is really needed for communication in this globalization area as no
country denies interaction with other country. As different country, it shows different language used
that has own culture so it is necessary to learn cross culture understanding in order not to have
misunderstanding as proper expression in one culture may be considered contrary in another
culture. Ascross culture understanding is important in communication, it is used as a source of
teachingEnglish for communication that is really suitable with the needs of the students to
communicate with foreigner although they are different levels of study, department as well as region.
The purpose of this research are to describe the cross culture understanding used as material for
teaching English for communication in language for communication and the meaning in foreign
language course in Malang Raya. Descriptive qualitative research is used. As it is known the
number of teachers a lot it will take purposive sampling so the subject is the teachers at foreign
language course. The instruments used are interview and observation as well as questionnaire. The
finding shows that cross culture understanding for communication is found for greeting and daily
activity that shows its culture while the meaning is quite different among foreign languages and
Indonesia. Some of them show the meaning is almost the same but the others are contradiction.