Engaging students in SNS-mediated visual essay-writing tasks to develop intercultural communication skills

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Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan, Sandi Ferdiansyah

2025 Communication Teacher Vol. 39 Issue 3 Article Cited by 0

Abstract

Thisarticle discusses how intercultural communication learning can be enacted by engaging students in writing a visual essay mediated by social networking sites as an online platform. This article reports on the Cross-Cultural Understanding course, which explores how perspectives, people, practice, and products (4Ps) framing cultural diversity can be discussed through online learning. This article aims to help students gain a better intercultural understanding through task-based activities mediated by social networking sites such as Facebook. © 2024 National Communication Association.

Affiliations

English Literature Department, Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan, Indonesia; Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember, Jember, Indonesia