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題 名 | Library Services for Ethnolinguistic Students |
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作 者 | Liu, Mengxiong; | 書刊名 | 教育資料與圖書館學 |
卷 期 | 32:3 1995.03[民84.03] |
頁 次 | 頁239-246 |
分類號 | 023.6 |
關鍵詞 | Ethnolinguistic student; Information seeking behavior; Intercultural communication; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | International students compose a great portion of student body on university campuses in the United States. They face difficulties in using the academic libraries due to language barrier, disadvantaged communication skill, and lack of self-service conception. It is a challenge for library to assist this ethnolinguistically diverse student population. Librarians must have an understanding of their information seeking behavior in order to serve them better. Intercultural communication skill is essential when interacting students from other cultures. An effective intercultural conversation involves four steps: to establish an open conversational decorum, to differentiate goal- oriented talk from metatalk, to make explanation relative rather than abslute, and to match the outcome with student's lifeworld. Gatekeepers play an important role in information dissemination. It is suggested that librarians develop new approaches to identify the gatekeepers among the student groups. They must create their own multicultural environments for the benefit of all campus clientele. |
本系統中英文摘要資訊取自各篇刊載內容。