Interweaving local cultural knowledge with global competencies in one higher education course: an internationalisation perspective

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Language, Culture and Curriculum Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI:10.1080/07908318.2021.1958832

Leechin Heng, H. Yeh

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ABSTRACT Developing curricula that responds to the demand for internationalisation in higher education institutions (HEIs) has been gaining wide attention around the world. Taiwan, a country that houses more than 100 HEIs, is a keen member in joining the bandwagon of academic internationalisation. This paper explores the learning process and perceived benefits, as narrated by students from one HEI course, directed at developing students’ local cultural knowledge and global competencies, such as English and technological proficiency, through the means of video-making. An added objective of the course was for students to enter their completed videos to the Bilingual Video Competition hosted by a national university in central Taiwan. Findings from the study demonstrated that through the course, students have not only gained a stronger foothold of their cultural identity and English and digital literacy skills, but the process of the project has also led them to become more agentic and to recognise the importance of team work and collaboration. Suggestions for future studies will be discussed.

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在一门高等教育课程中将本土文化知识与全球竞争力相结合：国际化视角

在高等教育机构(HEIs)中开发符合国际化需求的课程已经在世界范围内受到广泛关注。拥有100多所高等教育机构的台湾，是学术国际化潮流的积极参与者。本文从高等教育学院的一门课程中，通过视频制作的方式，探讨了学习过程和感知到的好处，该课程旨在培养学生的当地文化知识和全球能力，如英语和技术熟练程度。该课程的另一个目标是让学生将完成的视频提交给台湾中部一所国立大学主办的双语视频比赛。研究结果表明，通过课程，学生们不仅在文化认同、英语和数字读写技能方面获得了更强的立足点，而且项目的过程也使他们变得更加自信，并认识到团队合作和协作的重要性。讨论对未来研究的建议。

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期刊介绍： Language, Culture and Curriculum is a well-established journal that seeks to enhance the understanding of the relations between the three dimensions of its title. It welcomes work dealing with a wide range of languages (mother tongues, global English, foreign, minority, immigrant, heritage, or endangered languages) in the context of bilingual and multilingual education and first, second or additional language learning. It focuses on research into cultural content, literacy or intercultural and transnational studies, usually related to curriculum development, organisation or implementation. The journal also includes studies of language instruction, teacher training, teaching methods and language-in-education policy. It is open to investigations of language attitudes, beliefs and identities as well as to contributions dealing with language learning processes and language practices inside and outside of the classroom. Language, Culture and Curriculum encourages submissions from a variety of disciplinary approaches. Since its inception in 1988 the journal has tried to cover a wide range of topics and it has disseminated articles from authors from all continents.