미국 대학의 한국인 유학생과 미국인 대학생의 문화 간 커뮤니케이션 능력에 대한 비교연구 = A Comparative Study of Intercultural Communicative Competence of Korean Students as Sojourners and American Students as Hosts in American Universities

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is designed to explore intercultural communicative competence of Korean students as sojourners and American students as hosts in American universities. Intercultural communicative competence is the complex of abilities needed to perform effectively and appropriately when encountering with others who are culturally and often linguistically different from oneself. Competence is abstract and cannot be witnessed directly; thus, it should be inferred by observing how one performs. Competence and performance are interrelated. From this perspective on competence, this study aims at observing how Korean students as sojourners and American students as hosts perform their intercultural communication. To achieve this aim, Korean and American students in American universities were sampled and surveyed to measure their performance of intercultural communicative competence at its four dimensions including the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and awareness. The study result offers not only the performance comparison between the intercultural communicative competence of Korean students and that of American students but also a theoretical schema of the intercultural communicative competence from the perspective of a sojourner and a host.