E-LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE

dc.creator	Meei-Ling Liaw
dc.date	2006-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:19:42Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:19:42Z
dc.identifier	1094-3501
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/96cd75537b364797a5c954fc1d9d67f2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/27805
dc.description	This study presents findings on the efficacy of an online learning environment developed to foster EFL students’ intercultural competence via reading articles on topics of their own culture and communicating their responses with speakers of another culture. The project offered opportunities for EFL students to use their own societal and cultural practices as the focus for EFL learning. In addition, with the help of an e-forum, the learning environment allowed the students to exchange their views with speakers of the target language. Two e-referencing tools were made available in the system while students were reading and writing. The findings showed that all EFL participants were able to communicate fluently in the target language without much help from corpora-based e-referencing tools provided in the system. The use of the online dictionary decreased drastically after the first two readings. The online concordancer, instead of being used for learning different kinds of cultural meaning on the levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual organization as originally intended, was used by the students to link to articles of similar topics for further explorations of culture and language learning opportunities. Despite some technical difficulties with the computers, the collaboration between the two groups of students was successful, as can be seen from the positive and complimentary comments from the participants. The students’ e-forum entries demonstrated four types of intercultural competences: (A) interest in knowing other people’s way of life and introducing one’s own culture to others, (B) ability to change perspective, (C) knowledge about one’s own and others’ culture for intercultural communication, and (D) knowledge about intercultural communication processes.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Hawaii
dc.relation	http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/pdf/liaw.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1094-3501
dc.source	Language Learning and Technology, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp 49-64 (2006)
dc.subject	Computer-Assisted Language Learning
dc.subject	Computer-Mediated Communication
dc.subject	Culture
dc.subject	Computer-Assisted Language Learning
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Literature (General)
dc.subject	PN1-6790
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Literature (General)
dc.subject	PN1-6790
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Literature (General)
dc.subject	PN1-6790
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Literature (General)
dc.subject	PN1-6790
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Literature (General)
dc.subject	PN1-6790
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.title	E-LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE
dc.type	article