DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH GREETING CULTURE IN BETWEEN FOREIGN STUDENTS AND STUDENTS AT ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY

Language plays an important role in our lives. Language is not only a communication tool but also an exchange between cultures. It is difficult to imagine how we will live without language. Language is a sign of distinguishing between humans and animals. People use language to communicate expressing ideas, thoughts, and feelings (love-hate, anger or friendliness), in a language one factor that plays a very important role is cultural interference. Cross-Cultural communication is one of the most interesting fields where we offer similarities and differences between cultures. Together they converges in language diversely among countries around the world. Although this cultural issue have been successfully studied so far, its use is not effective yet and it is confusing. Therefore, in this paper, the author only presents some confusing situations of university students in general, and students at Electric Power University in particular compared with foreign students. The purpose of this research is to limit the misunderstanding as well as to avo