Transforming habitus and recalibrating capital: University students’ experiences in online learning and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic

•University students transfer habitus and capital across fields during the pandemic.•They expand habitus and capital by utilizing affordances of digital technologies.•They enrich multimodal digital literacies in online learning and communication.•They revalidate multilingual capital against a regime...

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Published in:Linguistics and education 2022-06, Vol.69, p.101057-101057, Article 101057
Main Authors: Gu, Mingyue Michelle, Huang, Corey Fanglei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)
Capital
College students
Colleges & universities
Communication
COVID-19
Digital communication
English for academic purposes
Habitus
Higher education
Learning
Online instruction
Online learning
Pandemics
Social activities
Social networks
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Summary:•University students transfer habitus and capital across fields during the pandemic.•They expand habitus and capital by utilizing affordances of digital technologies.•They enrich multimodal digital literacies in online learning and communication.•They revalidate multilingual capital against a regime of English monolingualism. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought various challenges to the education domain globally. This study examines how a group of non-local university students studying at EMI universities in Hong Kong adjusted to the dominant online mode of learning and communication based on their lived experiences in learning and intercultural social networking during the pandemic. Employing the theory of digital literacies and Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital, we show how students expanded, redeveloped and transferred existing awareness, knowledge, competences and practices to engage in a range of digitally mediated academic and social activities in this condition. We conclude by discussing how the findings may inform refinement or readjustment of digitalized/zing international higher education.
ISSN:0898-5898
1873-1864
0898-5898
DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2022.101057