Exploring the cultural awareness of students majoring in English: a case study

Patak, Andi Anto and Sahril, Sahril and Wello, M.Basri (2018) Exploring the cultural awareness of students majoring in English: a case study. International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI), 1 (4). pp. 210-217. ISSN ISSN: 26146169

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Abstract

Cultural competence has become an important element in creating a positive academic atmosphere. This study is a case study on the case of Cross-Cultural Understanding course. The participants or research subjects of this study consisted of 48 (forty eight) diploma, 21 (twenty one) bachelor, 20 (twenty) master, and 8 (eight) doctorate program. This study found out that doctorate students are consistently perceived the cultural awareness. This study does not mean that the older the student the wiser their acceptance to different culture due to some of the diploma program show the highly perceived on cultural awareness. This study revealed that cultural awareness is reasonably allied to the level of education. The majority of diploma group are in a medium cultural awareness. Bachelor and master showed significantly that they are in the medium level of cultural awareness. This study recommends for further study to conduct a quantitative study to investigate the cultural awareness of the students before and after the course of Cross-Cultural Understanding and to examine the increase the students’ cultural awareness. Keywords: Cultural awareness; linguistics competence; communication competence; crosscultural competence

Item Type: Article
Subjects: FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SASTRA
Divisions: FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SASTRA
Depositing User: Farid Sehuddin
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2022 00:24
Last Modified: 21 Jun 2023 00:00
URI: http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/25929

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