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Social Presence in the Web-Based Classroom

Implications for Intercultural Communication

Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Education, Bogaziçi University, 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey, senem.yildiz{at}boun.edu.tr

Social presence is a theory derived from social psychology to explain social interactions in a mediated communication and is defined as the degree to which interlocutors in a communications medium perceive each other as real. This study investigates the effect of computer-mediated communication on the social presence of international students who spoke English as a foreign language in two Web-based graduate courses offered in the United States and aims to explore how linguistic and cultural differences influenced their social presence.

Key Words: social presence • Web-based courses • asynchronous discussion • online education • learning community • EFL • participation

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Journal of Studies in International Education, Vol. 13, No. 1, 46-65 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1028315308317654


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