The Potential of a Mobile Group Blog to Support Cultural Learning among Overseas Students

Autor/inn/en	Shao, Yinjuan; Crook, Charles
Titel	The Potential of a Mobile Group Blog to Support Cultural Learning among Overseas Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Studies in International Education, 19 (2015) 5, S.399-422 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1028-3153
DOI	10.1177/1028315315574101
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Study Abroad; College Students; Student Journals; Electronic Journals; Web Sites; Educational Benefits; Computer Mediated Communication; Acculturation; Information Dissemination; Cultural Awareness; Second Language Learning; Self Efficacy; Qualitative Research; Grounded Theory; Focus Groups; Interviews; China; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Collegestudent; Studentenzeitung; E-Journal; Web-Design; Bildungsertrag; Computerkonferenz; Akkulturation; Informationsverbreitung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Großbritannien
Abstract	We explored the use of mobile social software, in the form of a mobile group blog, to assist cultural learning. The potential of using this technology for cultural adaptation among overseas students was examined as those students adapted to the everyday life of studying abroad. Two pilot studies and a successful field study of a mobile group blog as used by U.K. overseas students are reported. A further study with prospective overseas students witnessing this "moblogging" in China revealed the advantages of communicating through this technology as a form of peer-supported preparation for cultural adaptation. Potential advantages for learning a second language, via this system, were highlighted as communication was interwoven with cultural adaptation and exercised in the blog entries. Given mobile Internet, the language experience together with cultural observation impressively supported these students' growing confidence with time, space, and imagination. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01