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标题：Social Support for International Students in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice
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作者：Takuya Kojima
期刊名称：IAFOR Journal of Education
电子版ISSN：2187-0594
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：25-40
语种：English
出版社：The International Academic Forum
摘要：Drawing on communities of practice,this article considers social support for international students in Japanese as a foreign language classroom at an Australian university. Social support,which is a means of promoting well-being,is often set outside international students’ day-to-day routines,especially outside classrooms in that academic support is a primary concern. Language education studies concerning student emotional experiences acknowledge that classrooms are venues for emotional turmoil and thus call for more attention on classrooms to better understand and support student learning. Yet,in-class social support has been underdiscussed to date. This qualitative case study focused on four international students in an introductory Japanese course within a Japanese program community of practice and analyzed the data collected over a 13-week semester using a reflexive thematic analysis to write four vignettes. The vignettes highlight that the students felt stressed in their daily and academic lives,and built,gave,received,and benefited from social support in the classroom. The social support impacted not only their Japanese learning,but also their study for other subjects;that is,it enhanced their overall well-being as students. Exploring in-class social support using a community of practice perspective helped elucidate how educators can promote social support in foreign language classrooms. Further,it prompted us to reconsider what classrooms are for,and underlined the importance of paying attention to such support to enhance the well-being of international students who are likely to face challenges frequently.
关键词：classroom;communities of practice;emotional experiences;foreign language;international students;social support;vignette