Intercultural Interaction in English

Taiwanese University Students' Investment and Resistance in Culturally Mixed Groups

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4779459
AutoresShu-Wen Lan (0000-0002-8258-3363, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume10
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244020941863
OpenAlexW4243999051
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas35

Despite increased diversity on campuses worldwide, research has documented a lack of intercultural interaction among university students. Culturally mixed groups have been found to be a promising means of promoting the rich, repeated contact necessary for intercultural interaction, but hardly any studies of local students' perceptions of such groups have been conducted in the newly internationalized universities in Asia. Through the lens of an expanded model of investment, this study analyzes reflective journals and interviews with Taiwanese college students to examine their perceptions and experiences of culturally mixed groups. Findings indicate that the majority resisted non-native to non-native speaker intercultural interaction in these groups. This resistance was driven by their pro-standard English ideologies, traceable to the earliest stages of their English education, which promoted native-speaker models and unrealistic imagined communities of native-like speakers

Cultural diversity · Ideology · Intercultural communication · Intercultural relations · Pedagogy · Perception · Political science · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology