Preparing Japanese students’ digital literacy for study abroad: Is more training needed?

Travis Cote, Brett Milliner

To promote a more positive academic and culturally-inclusive study abroad experience, one recommendation is for language teachers to focus on students’ digital literacy (Kinginger, 2011). Given the reported poor levels of digital literacy among Japanese freshman students (see Lockley 2011; Murray & Blyth, 2011), the researchers in this current study were attempting to determine if this wider trend also applied to students at their private university in Tokyo.  The authors surveyed  first-year College of Tourism and Hospitality (cth) students preparing for a year-long study abroad program.  This paper will report on student responses to two sec- tions of a computer literacy questionnaire cre- ated by Son, Robb and Charismadjiri (2011).

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