ABSTRACT
For edusemiotics, signs are adopted as the philosophical and theoretical foundation for educational studies and learning is conceptualized as semiosis, a process of signification that mediates between learner and environment. This process of learning-as-semiosis incorporates a triadic relation between the object (perception or understanding), the representamen (observable signs of language, behavior, etc.), and interpretant (interpretation between objects and representamen). The triadic relation of semiosis is infinite and continuous, and contributes to the expansion of the semiosphere in which semiosis takes place. However, interpretation, which is embedded in the learner's choice-making, can be changed and habituated. Such dynamic triadicity of learning-as-semiosis sheds much light on intercultural learning in which learners are expected to expand their semiosphere and to adapt their habituated approaches to interpretation in accordance with the changes in the cultural contexts.
