Citation: Al-Wossabi, S. A. N.. (Desember, 2016). Promoting Communicative Skills and Cultural Understanding among Saudi EFL Students Joining Summer English Programs at US Universities: A Web-Based Project. 7. 6.
The aim of this journal is to enhance the oral English competence for Saudi Students. The research is conducted to the Saudi EFL Students who is joining summer English program at US University. There are some students enrolled to US University in order to develop their English competence especially in Listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. The teaching method was used web-based project. The students only attended to the class room only for first 20 hours then they studied through web site for the rest.
The result showed that the web based project can develop students’ competences in sociolinguistics, speaking skill and listening skills because when they lived in US, they lived with the native family and they learnt the culture of them. in this case, the cultural understanding was very needed in order to prevent their cultural shocked. As it is known that Arabic and American have different culture, by learning cultural awareness they can easily adapted with the native people there. And finally they can learn to improve their English skills by living with the native family there because they communicate with them everyday.
I agree that you stated about students should have cultural understanding because it can make them easier to adapt in another countries.
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