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How to use stereotypes to raise awareness of cultural interpretation and encourage intercultural competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As Ghent University is increasingly attracting international undergraduate and graduate students there is a growing need for special attention concerning intercultural issues.
Kanobana, Sibo
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The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering children as active and responsible citizens: A dramatic journey towards global citizenship

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates three key moments from a sequence of learning facilitated within a Singapore preschool. Delivered as part of a wider study aimed at identifying the value of dramatic pedagogies for developing young children's global competence, the learning sequence was facilitated by the researcher—an experienced early childhood ...
Elaine Ng
wiley   +1 more source

The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can ...
Houghton, Stephanie
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Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
wiley   +1 more source

Creativity and digital spaces in the intercultural society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalization, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the ...
Mesquita, Anabela
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Task engagement and comprehensibility development in video‐mediated intercultural exchanges: A longitudinal study

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in task engagement, few studies have examined how it contributes to L2 development. This longitudinal study examined how task engagement related to gains in L2 Japanese comprehensibility among nine UK‐based university students participating in a semester‐long, video‐mediated eTandem exchange with Japanese partners ...
Yuka Akiyama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Walking the walk? Quantifying university L2 French students' prioritization and experience of critical literacies instruction

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
wiley   +1 more source

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