Arab Culture Education Using a Soap Opera: Focus on the Application of the Methodology of Ethnography of Communication
- Year of publication: 2017
- Source: Show
- Pages: 104-115
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.2017.47.1.08
- PDF: tner/201701/tner20170108.pdf
This article aimed to suggest implications of learner-centered culture education through observation, participant observation, interviewing or ethnoscience in particular. Korean Arabic language learners were asked to watch two episodes of an Arab soap opera and compare and contrast their own culture from Arab culture based on what they had watched. Results of this study showed a desir- able direction, from insiders’ perspectives, for culture education utilizing the methodology of ethnography of communication. In order to establish Korean learners’ cultural identities as well as to equip them with cross-cultural compe- tence through which they can appropriately, accurately behave depending on situational context, this methodology of ethnography of communication into Arab culture educational practice should be made in the future.