The strategy using in communication between Japanese and Taiwanese university student
The strategy using in communication between Japanese and Taiwanese university student
MA3C0210 王明君 Chelsea
Introduction
• Many language teachers have increasingly indulged in developing collaborative language learning activities using computer-mediated communication.
• CMC modes are used as an approach to help learners to create social interaction in and outside the classroom.
Definition of communication
• Two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange (encode-decode) information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning.
Motivation
• The interaction is frequent between Taiwan and Japan but not all people of two countries could speak Chinese and Japanese.
Purpose of the study
• This study adopted to reveal the pragmatic function of students in real communications as positive, negative, direct and communicative strategies.
Research Question
• What different strategies in communication between Taiwanese and Japanese students.
• What different attitude in communication between Taiwanese and Japanese students.
Literature Review
• Warschauer(1999) referred to the ability of synchronous CMC to help overcome the contradiction between focus on form and meaning.
• Computer-mediated communication lends itself to conversations controlled by the participants (Klem, 1996).
• The study of culture became an important aspect of foreign language teaching that is oriented toward communicative proficiency(Omaggio, 1986)
Methodology
• The chat activities are designed in coordination with the course instructor in order to meet both the research needs of the study and the instructional needs of students.
• The chat activities are held in a computer classroom and all of their talking content will be recording.
Participant
• There are 5 Japanese students and 15
Taiwanese students.
• Students are divided into 5 groups and there are 1 Japanese student and 3 Taiwanese students in every group.
• Time: The discussion about 40 minutes every week
• Class Setting:
The discussion in internet chat room
• Topic: All students will know all topics in the beginning of semester.
• Chat topics:
1. self-introduction 2. advertising
3. social media 4. country images
5. pop culture 6. Free topic
Data Analysis
• The talking of every group will be recording and analyzing.
• The reflection of students will be analyzing.
