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Intercultural Competence and its Assessment: A Critical Contextualization

open access: yes, 2017
As globalization shifts towards an increasingly more interconnected conception of the world, many nations, cultures and people find themselves in intercultural situations with an unprecedented regularity.
Hernandez-Moreno, Beatriz
core   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

My cyber self: identity presentation on TikTok

open access: yesАктуальні проблеми української лінгвістики: теорія і практика, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2022.44.118-129 TikTok is a social network that has provided its users with a unique combination of communicative tools and, as a result, has laid the foundation for a new communication context for self-expression ...
Kateryna Karpova, Oksana Borymska
doaj  

Intercultural Training Models for U.S. Businesses in China

open access: yes, 2008
This study presents a descriptive analysis of the practices of intercultural training programs employed in U.S. multinational corporations for preparing their employees to go to China on overseas assignments.
Guo, Xiaonan
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Preschool Heads’ Notions of Digitalized Staff–Parent Communication : The Need to Move from Monocultural to Intercultural Communication in Multicultural Sweden

open access: yes, 2022
Drawing on a preschool digitalization project, this article presents the findings from a survey of 75 Swedish preschool heads. One main question guided the survey: how do Swedish preschool heads describe the use and usefulness of digital tools for ...
Stier, Jonas   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Life as an ethnic minority (EM) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
wiley   +1 more source

Differences of kindergarten children's linguistic picture of the world: focus on Hungary, Russia, and Laos

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Three-to-five-year-old Laotian kindergarten children, native speakers of the Lao language were investigated in order to map the peculiarities of their picture of the world through their word associations. Results were contrasted to a previous comparative
Istvan Lenart, Irina Markovina
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Social capital and employability development among Chinese Mainland undergraduates in Hong Kong: An exploration of network dynamics, structural constraints and agentic practices

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Bourdieu's sociological concept of social capital highlights its significance in enabling individuals to access other forms of capital for personal advantage. In the literature on university students' employability, particularly that concerning international and non‐local students, social capital is widely recognised as a key asset, alongside ...
Fang Gao, Thanh Pham
wiley   +1 more source

Does Stereotype Threat Affect Men in Language Domains?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Boys and men tend to underperform in language education, and they are also underrepresented in language-related fields. Research suggests that stereotypes can affect students’ performance and sense of belonging in academic subjects and test settings via ...
Kathryn Everhart Chaffee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intercultural communication: concept, essence and theories of intercultural communication

open access: yesInternational Journal on Integrated Education, 2020
The author conducts globalization impact conceptual analysis on the national culture and cultural identity formation and development in contemporary societies. The main focus is driven on such issues, as the globalization phenomenon, the extent to which national cultures are exerted influence by globalization, as well as threats and opportunities ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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