Indonesian Students’ Perceptions of Intercultural Awareness in Classroom Discourse

Abstract

This study depicts the students' perceptions of classroom discourse, mainly through extensive listening. The study recruits tertiary students from East Java, Indonesia as the participants of this study. The study applies a qualitative approach. The study concerns how they perceive intercultural awareness in classroom discourse. The findings show that students must enhance their intercultural awareness in understanding language, cultural, and religious diversity. In classroom discourse, they have learned a lot about both Anglophone and non-Anglophone cultures. They consider diversity to be special. They believe that every culture has its own distinctive traits. In addition, students tend to respect to others with different cultural backgrounds. It can enhance students' tolerance and intercultural knowledge. The findings may assist educators in designing and exploring intercultural tasks to promote students' intercultural awareness in classroom discourse. Future studies should be concerned with fostering intercultural awareness and intercultural communicative competence by applying other intercultural tasks.