(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines

Internationalization has prompted schools to send out students in study-abroad programs. Many inbound international students come to the Philippines often to learn the English language at lower tuition costs, lower costs of living, and well-trained teachers. Among Koreans, many feel strongly motivat...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Quinto, Edward Jay M., Ofalia, Bernardino, Bae, Jinho, Salonga, Lean Syhing
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/1/23431-116198-1-PB.pdf

id	ukm-13905
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-139052020-01-12T23:54:46Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/ (Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines Quinto, Edward Jay M. Ofalia, Bernardino Bae, Jinho Salonga, Lean Syhing Internationalization has prompted schools to send out students in study-abroad programs. Many inbound international students come to the Philippines often to learn the English language at lower tuition costs, lower costs of living, and well-trained teachers. Among Koreans, many feel strongly motivated to learn English, yet many remain unwilling to communicate in real-life situations. The researchers explore the notion of (un)willingness to communicate among ten Korean EFL learners in study abroad programs in Manila. Findings from an indepth focus group discussion support previous studies within the Korean social context, in that the participants generally exhibit unwilling-to-communicate tendencies. Three themes that explain this phenomenon were identified: communicative situation’s level of formality, learners’ intercultural sensitivity, and their subject matter anxiety. Both level of formality and subject matter anxiety support willingness to communicate (WTC) as a situationally-dependent construct. However, intercultural sensitivity seemed to be a mixture of intercultural complex (IC) and L1 audience sensitivity (L1AS) previously found among learners within the Korean school system. It could then be that, as a factor of WTC in a study abroad context, intercultural sensitivity involves a knowledge of ‘Non-Korean world’, i.e., the Filipino language learning context, and an intense awareness of the inequalities perceived between Koreans and their Non-Korean audience. Results may assist communication coaches, international programs staff, and language teachers in minimizing the ‘generalized baggage’ that Korean learners carry around and bring with them when communicating in a foreign language. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/1/23431-116198-1-PB.pdf Quinto, Edward Jay M. and Ofalia, Bernardino and Bae, Jinho and Salonga, Lean Syhing (2019) (Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 35 (4). pp. 17-31. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1235
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	Internationalization has prompted schools to send out students in study-abroad programs. Many inbound international students come to the Philippines often to learn the English language at lower tuition costs, lower costs of living, and well-trained teachers. Among Koreans, many feel strongly motivated to learn English, yet many remain unwilling to communicate in real-life situations. The researchers explore the notion of (un)willingness to communicate among ten Korean EFL learners in study abroad programs in Manila. Findings from an indepth focus group discussion support previous studies within the Korean social context, in that the participants generally exhibit unwilling-to-communicate tendencies. Three themes that explain this phenomenon were identified: communicative situation’s level of formality, learners’ intercultural sensitivity, and their subject matter anxiety. Both level of formality and subject matter anxiety support willingness to communicate (WTC) as a situationally-dependent construct. However, intercultural sensitivity seemed to be a mixture of intercultural complex (IC) and L1 audience sensitivity (L1AS) previously found among learners within the Korean school system. It could then be that, as a factor of WTC in a study abroad context, intercultural sensitivity involves a knowledge of ‘Non-Korean world’, i.e., the Filipino language learning context, and an intense awareness of the inequalities perceived between Koreans and their Non-Korean audience. Results may assist communication coaches, international programs staff, and language teachers in minimizing the ‘generalized baggage’ that Korean learners carry around and bring with them when communicating in a foreign language.
format	Article
author	Quinto, Edward Jay M. Ofalia, Bernardino Bae, Jinho Salonga, Lean Syhing
spellingShingle	Quinto, Edward Jay M. Ofalia, Bernardino Bae, Jinho Salonga, Lean Syhing (Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
author_facet	Quinto, Edward Jay M. Ofalia, Bernardino Bae, Jinho Salonga, Lean Syhing
author_sort	Quinto, Edward Jay M.
title	(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
title_short	(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
title_full	(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
title_fullStr	(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
title_full_unstemmed	(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines
title_sort	(un)willingness to communicate in english among korean study abroad students in the philippines
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13905/1/23431-116198-1-PB.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T20:05:54Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T20:05:54Z
_version_	1777407155615301632

(Un)willingness to communicate in English among Korean study abroad students in the Philippines

Similar Items