Promoting Intercultural Competence in Preservice Teacher Education through Virtual Exchange
Promoting Intercultural Competence in Preservice Teacher Education through Virtual Exchange
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通过虚拟交流提高职前教师教育的跨文化能力
DOI：
10.11114/smc.v11i1.5791
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2022
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J. DePriest
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Syerina Syahrin;Nurul Akmal;Sarah Spromberg;J. DePriest
跨文化能力是指运用跨文化知识、技能和态度与来自不同文化背景的人进行有效沟通的能力。要成为一名称职的英语教师，职前教师教育的学生必须能够管理来自不同文化背景的学生的课堂。本研究透过与杜兰大学的虚拟交换计划，探讨佐法尔大学职前教师教育学生提升跨文化能力的可能性。通过课程干预，职前教师教育学生有机会参与虚拟对话。本研究运用行动研究的方法，通过评估职前教师教育学生在虚拟交流计划前后的反应，试图寻求职前教师教育学生在态度、技能和知识三个方面对其跨文化能力的看法。研究结果显示，参与跨文化虚拟交流项目后，师范生的开放性、沟通技巧、同理心、世界观和自我意识均有显著提高。然而，虚拟交流项目并没有影响学生对不同文化背景的同龄人的保留判断。
Intercultural competence refers to the ability to effectively communicate with people from diverse cultural backgrounds while utilizing one’s intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes. To become a competent teacher in English, preservice teacher education students would have to be able to manage a classroom with students from different cultural backgrounds. This study explores the possibilities of promoting intercultural competence among a group of pre-service teacher education students at Dhofar University through a virtual exchange program with Tulane University. Through a curriculum intervention, the pre-service teacher education students were given the opportunity to engage in conversations virtually. Utilizing an approach of action research, the study attempted to seek the pre-service teacher education students’ perspectives on their intercultural competence in three areas namely attitude, skills, and knowledge by assessing their responses before and after the virtual exchange program. The results of the study revealed that the preservice teacher education students perceived their openness, communication skills, empathy, worldview, and self-awareness to have significantly increased after participating in the intercultural virtual exchange program. However, the virtual exchange program did not have an impact on the students’ reservation of judgment towards their peers of different cultural backgrounds.