There are 4 stages of Culture Shock:

  1. Honeymoon
  2. Hostility
  3. Humour
  4. Home

Barbara Law and Mary Eckes, The More-Than-Just-Surviving Handbook: ESL for Every Classroom Teacher. (Winnipeg, Manitoba: Portage & Main Press, 2000.) Copyright © 2000 by Barbara Law and Mark Eckes. Used by permission of Portage & Main Press.