Evaluating EFL Students’ Attitudes Towards Cultural Differences

Conversation analysis of Intercultural Communication

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.068How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EFL students’ attitude, Conversation analysis (CA), Intercultural Communication, Turn-taking

Abstract

Anchored from Byram’s model (1997; 2000) of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) namely knowledge, attitudes, skills of interpreting and relating, skills of discovery and interaction, and critical cultural awareness, this study explores the relevance of the conversation analytic perspective for the evaluation of EFL students’ attitude toward cultural differences in spoken discourse. This research used a qualitative method in which the data were collected using zoom recording, observation, and interview. This study uses pictures that reflect cultural differences to see how EFL students’ attitude competence is perceived in the online discussion. In the discussion process, the researcher uses the conversation analysis (CA) framework which focuses on turn-taking to see how intertwined discussion interactions and to find students’ attitude competence are perceived in FGD conversation. In the conversation, it revealed that turn-taking could be used to see the students’ attitude competence which is shown by each student in commenting on the picture showed cultural differences. Through Conversation analysis particularly turn-taking, each student has the opportunity to express their perspective about cultural differences one by one. In the end, the data shows that EFL students accept cultural differences with their perspectives.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ratna Andhika Mahaputri
AU  - Friska Rofianti Dewi
AU  - Pupung Purnawarman
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Evaluating EFL Students’ Attitudes Towards Cultural Differences
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 445
EP  - 451
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.068
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.068
ID  - Mahaputri2021
ER  -