Promoting Intercultural Competence of Thai University Students through Role-Play
| Autor: | Anamai Damnet, Kanoknate Worawong, Kanjana Charttrakul |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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lcsh:Language and Literature
060201 languages & linguistics Medical education lcsh:P101-410 Intercultural competence Multimethodology 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Body movement Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Intercultural communication lcsh:Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Grounded theory International communication 0602 languages and literature lcsh:P The CEFR Project- based activities Role-play Intercultural Competence and Non-Verbal Communication 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Materials Science Action research Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol 8, Iss 6, Pp 37-43 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2203-4714 |
| DOI: | 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.6p.37 |
| Popis: | The current situation of international communication in globalization context requires intercultural competence (IC) to achieve successful communication (Crystal, 2003). Concerning this intercultural competence, non-verbal communication (NVC) plays a key role to indicate the success of having intercultural competence. On the other hand, Thai Ministry of Education (MOE) has launched the CEFR for the country policy in English teaching and learning (Ministry of Education, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present major results of an investigation of intercultural competence, that is, the NVC. An innovative program implemented in this study is the CEFR and project- based activities (the CEFR-PBA). The study also examines Thai university students’ attitude towards this innovative class. This paper discusses the IC students learned from role-plays. The participants of the study were 44 students of third year English Education at a Thai Rajabhat University. Research method applies action research (Burns, 1999) and case study (Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Method, 2003). Data collection gained was from 1) videotape recordings of students’ role-play, and 2) the questionnaire. Data analysis for video recordings employed a NVC rating scale evaluated by native-speaker raters; while means, percentage, and SD were used for the questionnaire. Grounded theory’s color coding (Strauss & Cobin, 1990) will be utilized in analyzing the qualitative data from raters’ additional comment. Findings revealed students’ NVC performance were both appropriate on body movement and position as well as vocalic communication. Moreover, their attitude towards the CEFR-PBA was positive. |
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