Promoting cross‐cultural awareness and understanding: incorporating ethnographic interviews in college EFL classes in Taiwan

Su, Ya‐Chen

doi:10.1080/03055690802257150

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“…Research findings have shown that ethnography promotes learners’ openness and curiosity toward the target culture and raises cross‐cultural awareness (Bateman, ; Roberts, ). For example, Su () examined the effects of using the ethnographic interview project on the development of students’ inter‐cultural awareness and skills. The findings indicated that Taiwanese students learned to view their own culture in new ways and increased their confidence in using the target language to communicate with English speakers.…”

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Engaging Study Abroad Students in Intercultural Learning Through Blogging and Ethnographic Interviews

Lee¹

2012

Foreign Language Annals

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The study involved 16 American undergraduate students who used weekly blogs and conducted ethnographic interviews with native speakers to develop their intercultural competence over the course of one semester abroad. Selected blog entries, post‐surveys, and final interviews were collected and analyzed to report the findings. The results show that blog tasks afforded additional opportunities for students to refl ect upon cross‐cultural issues and exchange cultural perspectives with native informants. Blog entries indicate that students demonstrated various stages of intercultural competence from understanding cultural differences to demonstrating attitudes of openness and appreciation for the target culture. The study concludes that the accessibility to networking, the option of using the first language (L1) for self‐refl ection, and effective strategies for interpersonal communication are essential to maximize the potential of blogs for intercultural learning.

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Engaging Study Abroad Students in Intercultural Learning Through Blogging and Ethnographic Interviews

Lee¹

2012

Foreign Language Annals

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“…Tolerance in the form of inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more important where people are becoming closely interconnected. English language learning experts emphasize that it has been carefully tested that cultural competence plays a significant role in determining the success of language learning (Ellis & Ellis, 1994;Su, 2008). It is well tested that cultural competence plays a critical role in successful language learning (Ellis & Ellis, 1994).…”

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Exploring the cultural awareness of students majoring in English: a case study

Patak

Sahril

Wello

2018

IJHI

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Cultural competence has become an important element in creating a positive academic atmosphere. This study is a case study on the case of Cross-Cultural Understanding course. The participants or research subjects of this study consisted of diploma, bachelor, master, and doctorate program. This study found out that doctorate students are consistently perceived the cultural awareness. This study does not mean that the older the student the wiser their acceptance to different culture due to some of the diploma program show the highly perceived on cultural awareness.

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“…Having studied the scientific literature and practical problems, we put forward a hypothesis that instruction of international students will become more effective if cultural approach is integrated with content teaching of subjects such as science courses and humanities. Numerous scholars have proposed that language and culture be regarded as "two sides of the same coin" [3][4][5][6][7]. They have demonstrated that language is a part of culture, and culture is a part of language.…”

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Cultural Approach in Bilingual Training of International Students

2018

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Bilingual training of international students is a vocational training of learners with the use of two languages – English/French and Russian where the latter is a foreign language. The cultural approach regards culture as a key component integrated in science classes and humanities as well as language ones, aimed at cultural awareness that the students will heighten through constant reflection about the Self and the Others in order to develop linguistic and intercultural competences and facilitate a better understanding of a broader range of vocational contexts (scientific, social, clinical, political etc.) that the students are exposed to. Questionnaires, oral and written reports, classroom observations and interviews were used to collect the data. The findings show student’s positive perceptions of the cultural approach and highlight the value of explicitly considering a cultural component in content courses. Most students found the cultural approach as an effective way of facilitating intercultural communication and understanding.

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Promoting cross‐cultural awareness and understanding: incorporating ethnographic interviews in college EFL classes in Taiwan

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Engaging Study Abroad Students in Intercultural Learning Through Blogging and Ethnographic Interviews

Engaging Study Abroad Students in Intercultural Learning Through Blogging and Ethnographic Interviews

Exploring the cultural awareness of students majoring in English: a case study

Cultural Approach in Bilingual Training of International Students

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