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Title: Where English and Taiwanese Culture Meet: Investigation of Student Tour Guides' 'Speaking in English Tourism' Course
Language: English
Authors: Lin, Yi-Hsuan
Source: Taiwan Journal of TESOL. 2023 20(2):1-37.
Availability: 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/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 37
Publication Date: 2023
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: 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
Geographic Terms: Taiwan
Assessment and Survey Identifiers: Test of English for International Communication
ISSN: 1814-9448
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.
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Accession Number: EJ1397767
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