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Internships as intercultural learning

open access: yesJournal of International Students
This study examined 42 Taiwanese design students’ cross-cultural learning during internships in Japan’s creative industry firm, funded by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education under the “Dream-Building Study Abroad” program. Through thematic analysis and expert-rated intensity scoring (0–5 scale), six themes emerged.
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Moving beyond ‘intercultural competence’: interculturality in the learning of Mandarin in UK universities [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage and Intercultural Communication, 2016
ABSTRACTThis paper reports on a study of the identity perceptions of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mandarin at UK universities. Interviews with 26 students were conducted over a three-year period, most of whom were multilingual. Approximately half spoke English as an additional language. The remainder were native speakers of English.
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Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Tertiary Education for Sustainable Development: a Coil Project-Based Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
Current trends in tertiary education reflect the importance of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) for the globalized job market. In this research, using a mixed-methods approach, we investigated the influence Intercultural Communicative ...
Diana Sabadash   +2 more
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Nurturing Teamwork, Intercultural Competence, and Belonging in First-Year STEM Students

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Developing a professional STEM workforce with a high degree of intercultural competence is essential in today’s globalized world. To this end, Higher Education Institutions incorporate reflection to help students make meaning of their learning ...
Aparajita Jaiswal   +4 more
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E-learning and the development of intercultural competence

open access: yesLanguage Learning & Technology, 2006
This study presents findings on the efficacy of an online learning environment developed to foster EFL students’ intercultural competence via reading articles on topics of their own culture and communicating their responses with speakers of another culture.
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How develop intercultural curriculum in learning process. Some issues and considerations

open access: yesFormazione & Insegnamento, 2015
In both education in general and learning processes in particular, there is an increasing recognition of the need to develop students’ intercultural competence. The development of this competence poses a range of theoretical and practical challenges.
Umberto Margiotta
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Interkulturelle Begegnungen im kontextfernen Sprachunterricht

open access: yesZeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2015
Dieser Beitrag stellt eine Aktionsforschungs-Untersuchung vor, die zwischen 2010 und 2012 an der Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá durchgeführt wurde. Ausgangspunkt war die These, dass die geographische Entfernung Kolumbiens zu Deutschland und die damit
Tatjana Louis, Franziska Kammer
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Exploring the narrative of a Finnish early childhood education teacher on her professional intercultural learning

open access: yesJournal of Early Childhood Education Research, 2016
Cultural diversity has been increasing in Finnish day care centres, implying the need for early childhood education teachers to learn how to meaningfully work with children and parents from different cultural backgrounds.
Katri Jokikokko, Hannele Karikoski
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Conversational Analysis as a Method for Research on Intercultural Learning: A Report on a Project with the Aim of "Learning by Undertaking Research"

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2009
Conversational analysis—situated between pragmatic linguistics and qualitative empirical research—is a complex method, which needs a lot of time and dedication. It is necessary to develop a so-called “analytical mentality”.
Gabriele Berkenbusch
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