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社交媒體應用對少數族裔學生適應香港社會文化的影響
The Impact of Social Media Applications on Ethnic Minority Students' Acculturation to the Hong Kong Society
摘要
香港的少數族裔學生在教育流動性和融入主流社會面對極大的挑戰，對其學好中文、融入社會的信心產生巨大壓力。社交媒體的使用對於這些學生學習第二語言十分重要，因為通過社交媒體互動而獲得的文化知識、社交技能和思維方式等，均可整合、應用在學生的日常社交互動中，有助他們適應不同社會文化和學習溝通技能。本文以問卷調查和半結構式訪談為主要研究工具，以香港不同地區學校的中三至中六級少數族裔學生為研究對象，探究他們使用社交媒體對其融入香港華人社會文化的影響。研究結果表明社交媒體有助少數族裔學生提升融入香港華人社會所需的文化資本與社會資本，即文化適應所需的溝通能力、知識和信息，以及與本地居民建立起來的社交網絡。
並列摘要
Multicultural students in Hong Kong do not only face great challenges related to their integration into the society, but also struggle with enhancing educational mobility between generations. These appear to have posed negative impacts on their learning of the Chinese language, especially their confidence in acculturation into the host society. Social media is in fact an effective tool when learning a second language as it provides an easily-accessible platform for the learners to practise and apply the learned language such as vocabulary and sentence patterns into a communicative context. In addition, using social media appropriately can help the students better understand the embedded social norms, cultural values, and the language behaviours of the society. This study aims to understand to what extent the multicultural students' use of social media affects their acculturation into the Hong Kong society. Survey and semi-structured interviews are adopted as the main research tools. The participating students were in Secondary 3 to 6 from various secondary schools in Hong Kong. The results show that social media helps ethnic minority students increase their cultural capital and social capital, equipping the students with the communicative language of the society, up-to-date information of the society, and a network where they can communicate with the local residents. All these are highly important for them to integrate into the community.