Enhancing college students’ global awareness through campus Toastmasters clubs

dc.creator	Hsu, Tsu-Chia
dc.date	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:18:01Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:18:01Z
dc.identifier	2243-7703
dc.identifier	2243-7711
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9def64170d144c51a89c557df8718bd5
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26622
dc.description	The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the 20 college campus Toastmasters clubs all over Taiwan, towards the enhancement of its student members’ global awareness. Within the concept of cooperative learning, promotion of global views by means of sharing various cultural concepts within the conducted Toastmasters meeting program, group works such as structured interaction and communication activities, and individual speaking activities, while not worrying about their grammatical errors are used as strategies. Using the qualitative research paradigm in terms of focus group and individual interviews, the current study gathers college student members’ global viewpoints along with their insightful observations in order to understand the implications of such cooperative strategies. Results indicates that co-curricular programs in existing campus activities, such as Campus Toastmasters clubs, is capable of developing the students’ global viewpoints and/or was able to help diminish their culture shock within a competitive diversely membered higher education milieu.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Consortia Academia Publishing
dc.relation	http://www.consortiacademia.org/index.php/ijrse/article/view/3
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2243-7703
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2243-7711
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	International Journal of Research Studies in Education, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 21-34 (2012)
dc.subject	globalization
dc.subject	internationalization of higher education
dc.subject	Toastmasters
dc.subject	culture shock
dc.subject	effective communication skills
dc.subject	global perspective
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Enhancing college students’ global awareness through campus Toastmasters clubs
dc.type	article