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Pragmatics and intercultural mediation in intercultural language learning [PDF]

open access: yesIntercultural Pragmatics, 2014
This paper examines the role that pragmatics plays in language learners' practices of mediating between their own cultural understandings and those of the target culture.
Liddicoat, Anthony
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Intercultural language learning

open access: yesIbérica, 2008
This paper addresses the interrelationship of languages and cultures in the process of learning/teaching English in Translation Faculties in Spain. The fact that languages cannot be separated from their social and cultural contexts of use is widely ...
Richard Clouet
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Intercultural competence outcomes of a STEM living–learning community

open access: yesInternational Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background Living–learning communities and global or diversity learning experiences have been identified as educational practices which often have a “high impact” on student success, as well as providing interpersonal competencies that are greatly valued
Laura Starr, Katherine Yngve, Lan Jin
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Effects of Learner Variables on Chinese Bilingual Undergraduates’ Intercultural Sensitivity and Effectiveness

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
This study investigated the effects of learner variables on Chinese bilingual undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity and effectiveness. A total of 439 students from different universities answered a battery of questionnaires.
Meihua Liu
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Promoting the Development of Intercultural Competence in Higher Education Through Intercultural Learning Interventions

open access: yesRevista Electrónica Educare, 2022
Introduction. This article analyses the impact of an intercultural learning intervention in a Spanish university post-European Higher Education Area implementation. Objective.
Maria Luisa Sierra-Huedo   +1 more
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The impact of high-immersion virtual reality on foreign language anxiety

open access: yesSmart Learning Environments, 2023
Public speaking, especially in a foreign language, is associated with increased anxiety. Research has shown the potential of virtual reality (VR) for simulating real-life experiences, allowing for public speaking practice in an ecological and safe ...
Regina Kaplan-Rakowski, Alice Gruber
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Challenges and possibilities for creating genuinely intercultural higher education learning communities

open access: yesJPHE, 2021
This article synthesises and analyses the existing research and literature that has discussed the challenges and possibilities of providing intercultural learning environments for diverse students in the context of higher education.
Katri Jokikokko
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Intercultural Responsiveness: Learning Languages Other Than English and Developing Intercultural Communication Competence

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
This paper conceptually discusses why it is essential to foster intercultural responsiveness through learning a language other than English (LOTE) and developing intercultural communication competence at Australian universities.
Ping Yang
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An Analysis of Undergraduate EFL Students’ Perceptions of Intercultural Sensitivity

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
Intercultural sensitivity, which is seen as an affective component of intercultural competence, is crucial to cultivating one’s favorable emotions about cultural differences experienced in intercultural communication. This qualitative study was conducted
Huyen-Thanh Nguyen
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Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer

open access: yesLanguage and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article focuses on a particular arena of creative practice: music students’ largely sonic experience of Otherness through world music ensemble performance of klezmer (music with its roots in Jewish weddings in eastern and central Europe). Having briefly introduced klezmer, we situate our university ensemble into the traditions for teaching ...
Richard Fay   +2 more
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