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ERIC Number: EJ1126637
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0026-7902
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Effects of Intercultural Competence and Social Contact on Speech Act Production in a Chinese Study Abroad Context
Taguchi, Naoko; Xiao, Feng; Li, Shuai
Modern Language Journal, v100 n4 p775-796 Win 2016
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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China (Beijing)
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