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Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae

Students encounter with the influence of Thai culture in English communication. Through their studies of English, the students have been exposed to Western-learned culture affected by their Thai innate culture. This EFL learning condition shapes intercultural transformation occurred in intercultural...

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Main Author: Etae, Suhaila
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2019
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PE English language
Study and teaching
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/34215/1/34215.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.342152021-12-01T07:07:49Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/34215/ Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae Etae, Suhaila PE English language Study and teaching Students encounter with the influence of Thai culture in English communication. Through their studies of English, the students have been exposed to Western-learned culture affected by their Thai innate culture. This EFL learning condition shapes intercultural transformation occurred in intercultural communication in Thai context. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore intercultural transformation stages made by the Thai students in Facebook comment boxes posted to a Thai lecturer teaching English reading. Data was qualitatively collected from the students’ Facebook comments which was required as a participation during learning of Analytical and Critical Reading course posted to the lecturer. The obtained results indicated that the most significant stage of intercultural communication made by the student participants was stage 1 “poor psychological health”, followed by stage 2 “functional fitness”, stage 3 “fit psychological health” and stage 4 “intercultural identity”. For the cultural transformation, collectivism affected the students’ intercultural shifts in posting the FB comments to communicate in English with the lecturer. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/34215/1/34215.pdf ID34215 Etae, Suhaila (2019) Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae. In: LEC 2019, 17&18 April 2019, Rainbow Paradise Beach Resort, Pulau Pinang.
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
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topic PE English language
Study and teaching
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Study and teaching
Etae, Suhaila
Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
description Students encounter with the influence of Thai culture in English communication. Through their studies of English, the students have been exposed to Western-learned culture affected by their Thai innate culture. This EFL learning condition shapes intercultural transformation occurred in intercultural communication in Thai context. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore intercultural transformation stages made by the Thai students in Facebook comment boxes posted to a Thai lecturer teaching English reading. Data was qualitatively collected from the students’ Facebook comments which was required as a participation during learning of Analytical and Critical Reading course posted to the lecturer. The obtained results indicated that the most significant stage of intercultural communication made by the student participants was stage 1 “poor psychological health”, followed by stage 2 “functional fitness”, stage 3 “fit psychological health” and stage 4 “intercultural identity”. For the cultural transformation, collectivism affected the students’ intercultural shifts in posting the FB comments to communicate in English with the lecturer.
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author Etae, Suhaila
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title Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
title_short Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
title_full Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
title_fullStr Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
title_full_unstemmed Intercultural transformation stages by Thai EFL tertiary learners in Facebook comments / Suhaila Etae
title_sort intercultural transformation stages by thai efl tertiary learners in facebook comments / suhaila etae
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url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/34215/1/34215.pdf
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