l2 learning cultural empathy graduate student education approached colleague mine query linguist people may able help evaluation exchange program indonesia one object prepare high school teachers indonesia australia wondered anything written correlation degree acquisition l2 degree empathy participation culture l2 speakers high involvement skills might seem good thing teachers areas however negative aspects might apparently seems correlation development good skills language dropping teaching could due culture shock return australia became deeply immersed references ideas gratefully received number could summarise patrick mcconvell anthropology northrn territory university po box 40146 casuarina nt 0811 australia