한국 대학에 재학 중인 한국인 〮 외국인 대학원생들의 문화간 의사소통능력과 영어매체사용 비교 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare Korean graduate students and foreign graduate students as sojourners in a Korean university in terms of their intercultural communicative competence and use of English media. For the study, 31 Korean graduate students and 31 foreign graduate students participated in a survey. The survey measured the participants’ use of English media and four dimensions of intercultural communicative competence: Knowledge, attitudes, skills, and awareness. The results showed that the foreign graduate students rated their intercultural communicative competence and use of English media relatively higher than did the Korean graduate students. In addition, both groups’ intercultural communicative competence was positively correlated with their use of English media. The findings will shed light on how effectively English instructors can teach Korean students in tertiary education to be equipped with a high level of intercultural communicative competence, thus ultimately being successful in interacting with people from other parts of the world professionally and personally.