What what I'm going to do for my thesis, I've been thinking a lot. Finally, I decided to do something about the culture in the virtual platform-Second Life.
The topic is intercultural competence and Second Life. Before I started, it took me a long time to rewrite my thesis application and because I knew nothing about intercultural competence (ICC), so I've looked into many previous studies under the topic intercultural communication competence, cross-culture communication, etc. All these reading gained my knowledge of what is ICC and why important for people, especially for international students.
After the first meeting with my supervisor, she suggested me to attend classes that focus on outcomes and applications of ICC. In the class, the teacher provided some surveys to test students level of ICC.
These surveys gave me a sense of how could I do some activities with these surveys to test participants' attitudes of ICC. I found it was very useful for reflecting on myself as well. What I thought was different from the survey result. This motivated me to attend classes and took a deeper look at ICC.
