I've been tried some many different cultural places, and I found it only works for one of the competences which is the cultural knowledge. But intercultural also including skills, attitude and critical cultural awareness. How to involve all these concepts in an autonomy study program design is difficult.
After I read Ting-Toomey and Chung (2012) Understanding Intercultural Communication. I came up with some good concept which I could use in my design, such as value orientation, communication style, and individualism-collectivism. But the problem came along with all these concepts: how do I introduce these concepts through online activity design.
My tutor provides me an idea to always start with teleporting participants to somewhere to elicit the concept, and debriefing on what they had done. It takes me a lot of time to think about: 1) which concepts are essential for intercultural competence development; 2) what places in SL can elicit which concept in a reasonable way; 3) how could I put all activities in a logical order.
Another big issue is that all the activities I designed are based on my perspective and I assumed that is crucial for developing ICC. This brings back a problem in ICC which is stereotypes. Moreover, the videos I found to explain or elicit the concept also from the editors' perspective and could not be generalized. So for solving this problem, in each debriefing section, I need to announce the participants.
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