Effects of Intercultural Competence and Social Contact on Speech Act Production in a Chinese Study Abroad Context

Autor/inn/en	Taguchi, Naoko; Xiao, Feng; Li, Shuai
Titel	Effects of Intercultural Competence and Social Contact on Speech Act Production in a Chinese Study Abroad Context
Quelle	In: Modern Language Journal, 100 (2016) 4, S.775-796 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-7902
DOI	10.1111/modl.12349
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cultural Awareness; Study Abroad; College Students; Chinese; Second Language Learning; Intercultural Communication; Resilience (Psychology); Personal Autonomy; Interpersonal Competence; Adjustment (to Environment); Speech Acts; Cross Cultural Training; China (Beijing) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Collegestudent; China; Chinesen; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Individuelle Autonomie; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Sprechakt; Interkulturelle Orientierung
Abstract	This study investigated the effects of intercultural competence and amount of social contact in the development of pragmatic knowledge. All these variables were time-varying variables and measured twice over a 3-month study abroad. Participants were 109 American college students studying Chinese in a semester study-abroad program in Beijing. Using Kelley & Meyers's (1995) instrument, intercultural competence--defined as one's potential to succeed in intercultural adjustment--was measured by 4 factors: emotional resilience, flexibility/openness, perceptual acuity, and personal autonomy. A survey was used to assess the amount of time spent on a variety of social activities in Chinese. Pragmatic knowledge was measured with a spoken task, which assessed participants' ability to produce speech acts (k = 24). Latent Growth Curve Modeling showed that cross-cultural adaptability and social contact, when combined, explained 26% of pragmatic gains. Cross-cultural adaptability had no significant direct effect to speech acts gains: It had indirect effects through social contact. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01