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The Complexity of Expressions of Approval—One Aspect of Relational Practice in Diverse Workplaces

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The majority of workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand typically include team members from diverse cultural backgrounds, and yet an orientation to majority group norms (in this case, Pākehā) still dominates. In this article, we draw on naturally occurring workplace talk in a range of workplaces to explore both dominant group practices and norms ...
Janet Holmes, Bernadette Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural competence for future leaders of educational technology and its evaluation [PDF]

, 2005
Demands of globalization today continue to increase pressure for the education of global citizens who preserve the variety and vitality of life. Our transatlantic project has been developing a shared community of graduate students and faculty experts in ...
Davis, Niki, Ok Cho, Mi
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From a Learner's Perspective: Tracing L2 Interactional Competence Development in Video‐Mediated Task‐Based Interactions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In task‐based language learning, learners have to deal with the challenge of moving the task and the talk concurrently forward. In doing so, they develop sets of task‐relevant, interactional, and multimodal resources. In this study we use multimodal longitudinal conversation analysis to investigate one learner's L2 interactional competence ...
Carmen Konzett‐Firth, Ufuk Balaman
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural Competence – Key Competence of Multicultural Teams

Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2014
The article deals with intercultural competence of multicultural teams elaborating European projects. Firstly, it discusses basic theoretical aspects of the related concepts: culture and intercultural competence, then presents its impact on ...
Diana Bebenova - Nikolova
doaj  

Using the english language and cultural topics to foster the development of the intercultural competence in fifth graders [PDF]

, 2015
In the following project, it is evidenced the intercultural competence application into a fifth grade English class, which was used as a medium to promote student’s intercultural competence; this, with the purpose of making the students use the English ...
Gómez Vásquez, Luisa Fernanda, Monsalve López, Fernando, Restrepo Marulanda, Mariana   +2 more
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Transformative Learning Through Cultural Immersion [PDF]

, 2011
This qualitative study explored avenues to increase students’ intercultural competence through transformative learning. School of Education graduate students and faculty from a small, private university traveled to Ecuador to participate in a cultural ...
Addleman, Rebecca A., Brazo, Carol J., Cevallos, Tatiana   +2 more
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Headwinds and Tailwinds of Trans‐Speakerism

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trans‐speakerism is a concept rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion that strives to empower all language speakers, teachers, and researchers irrespective of their first languages, cultures, or speakerhoods. The surplus model of trans‐speakerism (based on who one already is and who one can become) rejects the deficit model of native ...
Takaaki Hiratsuka
wiley   +1 more source

Developing intercultural competence through internationalizing higher education: case studies of three Japanese universities

Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies
In this paper, we explored the role of intercultural competence programs in internationalization efforts as a means to move universities beyond traditional performative aspects of increasing international enrollments, exchanges, and competitiveness ...
Michael Goh, Hiroko Akiba, Yukako Yonezawa, Tatsuya Hirai, Miki Horie   +4 more
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Intercultural Awareness and Language Pedagogy [PDF]

International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 2020
Over the decades of language study and teaching linguists and scholars have come up with communicative competence (CC) theory. Currently, intercultural competence, a complementary subcategory of CC has been prioritized by a myriad of studies. Striving to
Ahad Ataie, Mohammad Mohammadi
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Understanding and assessing intercultural competence: A summary of theory, research, and practice (Technical report for the Foreign Language Program Evaluation Project) [PDF]

, 2007
In this report we summarize theory and research on intercultural competence, paying particular attention to existing approaches and tools for its assessment.
Norris, John, Sinicrope, Castle, Watanabe, Yukiko   +2 more
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