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

This article 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.