scholarly journals Teaching Culture: The Prevailing Stance of Indonesian EFL Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Ruly Morganna ◽  
Sumardi Sumardi ◽  
Sri Samiati Tarjana
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
International Language ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Teaching Cultures ◽  
Efl Learning

The view of culture in EFL learning is growing from modernist to postmodernist perspective (Kramsch, 2013). Such growth gives impacts on the view and implementation of EFL learning. Accordingly, this study investigated the prevailing stance of Indonesian EFL teachers regarding teaching cultures. The stance in this sense was explored from the teachers’ paradigm to practice. This study engaged 17 English teachers with a variety of experiences, and they were purposively selected from different schools. This study revealed evidence that although the nature of Indonesian people were multicultural, and the essence of English as an International language was as a mediator of cross-cultural communication, dominantly Indonesian EFL teachers, the subjects of this study, still stood on modernist perspective and had not incorporated the nuance of multiculturality and interculturality as an important part of EFL learning. Only few of them did otherwise with postmodernist perspective. As an implication, this study really supported Indonesian English teachers to take a stance on postmodernist perspective in executing EFL learning to meet the students’ nature and that of English as a global language. The contribution offered by this study is to give evidence prevailing to Indonesian EFL learning and insights promoting its development in order for the curriculum can help systemize the nuance of multiculturality and interculturality in EFL learning.  Keywords: Indonesian EFL learning; EFL teachers’ stance; teaching culture; English as an international language

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Communication Issues of Educating Bicultural Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriia Petrovna Osadchaia ◽  
Olga Lvovna Ivanova ◽  
Elizaveta Iosifovna Getman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication

The article is devoted to the importance of incorporating of a foreign culture learning, acquiring cross-cultural communication and cultural awareness skills in a foreign language teaching. The authors point out that teaching culture in foreign language teaching context should include cultural knowledge, cultural values, cultural skills and behavior. The author also emphasize that attitudes to teaching culture in the process of foreign language teaching involve, on the one side, considering teaching culture as teaching the fifth language skill along with speaking, listening, reading and writing, implying teaching cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness or the behavior in certain cultural situations, and on the other side, regarding language as social practice being defined by culture in which culture becomes the core of language teaching with cultural awareness viewed as enabling language proficiency. Cultural awareness is the foundation of communication; it helps to understand cultural values, beliefs, and perceptions of the other culture. Training of both bilingual and bicultural students at higher educational institutions is of primary significance. Intercultural awareness presumes a number of skills, improving students’ native culture and other cultures’ awareness and understanding. The authors come to the conclusion that intercultural awareness skills imply overcoming misinterpretations and accepting differences.

English as an international language beyond the ELT classroom

ELT Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-427
Author(s):  
Ju Seong Lee ◽  
Nur Arifah Drajati
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
International Language ◽  
Efl Students

Abstract While previous interventional studies on English as an international language (EIL) have focused on the role of teachers, recent studies have begun viewing how students engage autonomously in informal digital learning of English (IDLE) activities that are associated with their perception of English varieties and cross-cultural communication strategies. This mixed-method study examined the empirical relationship between IDLE and these two aspects of EIL involving 324 Indonesian EFL students. Results showed that receptive IDLE activity (e.g. watching English content) significantly predicted positive perception of English varieties, whereas quantity (frequency) of IDLE and productive IDLE activity (e.g. communicating with English users) significantly predicted the development of cross-cultural communication strategies. This study sheds light on the emerging phenomenon of how contemporary EFL students are exposed to and interact with diverse forms, accents, and users of English in a range of IDLE environments, along with the pedagogical implications for ELT.

scholarly journals Deconstructing the evolving roles of English language educators in the 21st century

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Joseph Anthony Narciso Z. Tiangco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Viral Spread ◽  
Global Language

The English language is lingua franca, and although perceived as the global language of modernity and success, its viral spread has inadvertently created marginalizing socioeconomic inequalities. This position paper argues that English language educators in higher education should take a more active role in promoting and implementing University Social Responsibility (USR) programs. English teachers need not limit their focus on language teaching and cross-cultural communication but, at the same time, take on other roles aimed at addressing the needs of the marginalized.

Foreign Language (English) Learning in Cross-Cultural Communication in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 671-684
Author(s):  
Mario Nugroho Willyarto ◽  
Ulani Yunus ◽  
Bhernadetta Pravita Wahyuningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
International Language ◽  
Strategic Location

The use of English in all aspects, especially in the world of education in Indonesia, has become more popular. Indonesia has a strategic location geographically, the need to be able to communicate in English is inevitable. This chapter was focusing on the foreign-language learning of Indonesian people regarding their interaction with people from other countries and cultures, which is using English. There were several previous researches taken, to be discussed in this chapter in supporting the idea that interaction with people from different countries and cultures would be able to promote the process of foreign-language (English) learning in verbal communication, especially for Indonesian people. Researches came up with the results that cross-cultural communication of Indonesian showing that the circumstances were giving a positive impact for their work and life, either professionally or personally. The verbal interaction should be conducted well to a better understanding. In order to communicate well, one should be able to master the international language, in this case is English.

Problems in cross-cultural communication

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. K. Eric Gunderson ◽  
Lorand B. Szalay ◽  
Prescott Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication

MODERNISM AND THE PROBLEM OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Irina Stanislavova ◽  
Galina Solovyova
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Functional Integrity

The article is devoted to the study of issues related to the problem of “intercultural com-munication”.The complexity and relevance of this problem for the modern stage of cultur-al development is shown. Modernism is seen as an element of erosion of the functional integrity and balance of the dominant cultural system. Based on this research, a number of conclusions are made.

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