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Exploring Chinese International Students’ Intercultural Competence in Australian University Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing number of Chinese international students in Australian universities, intercultural competence has become a critical factor influencing their interactions with Australian tutors in university classroom settings. Existing research often examines students’ intercultural competence from a single‐method or single‐perspective ...
Jiangyu Han, Linda Tsung
wiley   +1 more source

Changed Minds and L2 Motivation: Reflections of Japanese EFL Students Living, Laboring and Learning in Vietnam

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English as a lingua franca (ELF) is increasingly used for communication in many EFL contexts, including Vietnam. Although Japan and Vietnam have a long history of economic cooperation, for practical reasons, English typically functions as the medium of communication between the two groups. This study examines Japanese expats who had studied or
Mark R. Freiermuth, Satomi Kanaya
wiley   +1 more source

Acquiring intercultural communicative competence from textbooks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent foreign language textbooks can contribute to promoting students’ acquisition of intercultural communicative competence.
Rako, Danijela
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Global Interns or Learners of Japanese?: American Interns’ Negotiation of Positioning Across Orders of Indexicality in Japanese Workplaces

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid Japan's internationalization efforts, foreign employees are positioned as global English‐speaking talent while simultaneously facing expectations to conform to Japanese linguacultural norms. This study examines how such tensions are negotiated through the narratives of two interns—one African American and one Vietnamese American—in ...
Hae Ree Jun
wiley   +1 more source

Studies in Intercultural Communicative Competence in Language Teacher Education

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this chapter is to review some of the most relevant research on intercultural communicative competence in English language teaching published since 2000.
Guerra, Luis, Gonçalves, Olga
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Beyond Compartmentalized L1/L2 Teaching: Connecting Languages to Foster In‐Depth Learning and Multi/Trans Lingual Selves

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural Competence Development Through Tourism: A Study of Czech Visitors to France

open access: yesInternational Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross‐Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility ...
Renata Cuhlova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies to be used to develop the intercultural communicative competences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Modern languages students need develop the intercultural communicative competence in order to have good command in the idioms learned, the research proposes strategies to improve communication skills.
Florez Pineda, Jenny Carolina   +2 more
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Human Capital 4.0: Readiness of Initial Vocational Education Programmes in Italy and Germany

open access: yesInternational Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid pace of technological innovation and the advent of Industry 4.0 have profoundly transformed labour markets and the nature of work. This paper examines the preparedness of Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) programmes in Germany and Italy to meet the demands of Human Capital 4.0. Utilising a comparative analysis of three
Luca Antonazzo, Susanne Peters
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review : INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

open access: yesEltin Journal, 2013
The analysis of language and culture has been long and widely made.  To mention a few, Lies Sercu (2005) addresses this issue in Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence,  Soler and Jordan (ed, 2007) in Intercultural language Use and ...
Kaswan Kaswan
doaj  

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