A Comparative Study of Foreign and American-Schooled Women’s Perspectives on Threaded Discussions
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E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2004 in Washington, DC, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-54-9
Abstract
This study explored the processes of enculturation (i.e., the adoption of behavior of new social groups) and acculturation (i.e., changes in underlying cultural patterns during intercultural contact) through interviews with 8 pairs of American-schooled and foreign-schooled, female, graduate students regarding their views of threaded discussions. Findings highlight the prior schooling schema and adaptive processes used by American-schooled and foreign-schooled participants as they became enculturated into the threaded discussion culture of learning. While the medium of computer-mediated communication continually presents challenges for those who speak English as a foreign language, both American-schooled and foreign-schooled novice's acculturation was influenced by the manner in which they adapted to this new culture of learning.
Citation
Shafer, L. (2004). A Comparative Study of Foreign and American-Schooled Women’s Perspectives on Threaded Discussions. In J. Nall & R. Robson (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2004--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2413-2420). Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/11245.
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