Where English and Taiwanese Culture Meet: Investigation of Student Tour Guides' "Speaking in English Tourism" Course

Autor/in	Lin, Yi-Hsuan
Titel	Where English and Taiwanese Culture Meet: Investigation of Student Tour Guides' "Speaking in English Tourism" Course
Quelle	In: Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 20 (2023) 2, S.1-37 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1814-9448
Schlagwörter	Tourism; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Travel; Employees; Role Playing; Task Analysis; English for Special Purposes; Foreign Students; Speech Communication; Intercultural Communication; Discourse Analysis; Communicative Competence (Languages); Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Language Tests; Undergraduate Students; Language Proficiency; Evaluators; Learning Activities; Taiwan; Test of English for International Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tourismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Rollenspiel; Aufgabenanalyse; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Diskursanalyse; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Language test; Sprachtest; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Lernaktivität
Abstract	Local tour guides' English speaking competence determines inbound international tourists' travel experiences. This study investigated student tour guides' English learning by adopting role-play tasks. The communicative tasks were designed to explore how real interactions prepared English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners to become cultural ambassadors who introduce Taiwanese features to the world. Twenty-nine students were recruited from an "English for Tourism Purposes" course to interact with international students who acted as tourists. The student tour guides took turns introducing a topic unique to Taiwan. Data included recorded conversational interactions between the international and local students, comments on tour-guiding performances, and reflective notes. Adopting conversation and thematic analysis, the researcher analyzed the objective learning outcomes by observing how students performed in the tour-guiding tasks and examined the subjective viewpoints from the participants' reflective notes. The results revealed distinctive spoken features for communicative competence and the benefits of gaining a deeper intercultural understanding of how to communicate Taiwanese culture in English and developing various communication skills for interacting with foreigners. Pedagogical implications are discussed in terms of the design of English for Tourism teaching. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Chengchi University Department of English. 64 Sec 2 ZhiNan Road, Wenshan District, Taipei 11605, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-2938-7248; Fax: 886-2-2939-0510; e-mail: tjtesol@nccu.edu.tw; Web site: http://www.tjtesol.org/index.php/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01