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Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue “Migrant Youth, Intercultural Relations and the Challenges of Social Inclusion”

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2014
This Special Issue on “Migrant Youth, Intercultural Relations and the Challenges of Social Inclusion”, reports recent cutting edge research into the complex nature of migrant youth settlement in multicultural émigré societies.
Fethi Mansouri, Anna Halafoff
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitating adaptation and intercultural contact: The role of integration and multicultural ideology in dominant and non-dominant groups

open access: yes, 2015
© 2015. Research on acculturation has documented that adaptation to a receiving society is affected by both the immigrants' acculturation strategies and the dominant group's expectations about how immigrants should acculturate. However, the acculturation
Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Future Foreign Language Teachers’ Intercultural Competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There is a lack of research regarding the implications for foreign language study and intercultural competence. Scholars suggest that foreign language proficiency plays a role in cultivating intercultural competence, but agree that there is a lack of ...
Baalerud, Andrew
core  

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

Learner Agency and the Negotiation of EFL Motivation in GenAI‐Mediated Drama‐Based Learning: A Qualitative Case Study

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping language learning environments, yet little is known about how it becomes embedded within learners' motivational and agentive experiences in collaborative, informal settings like English drama‐based learning.
Meng Xiong, Timothy Teo
wiley   +1 more source

Interculturality on the border of disciplines. Polish language teaching as a means of intercultural education

open access: yesGlottodidactica, 2012
The goal of the article is a presentation of the existing and potential relations between Polish language teaching and intercultural education both in the theoretical and practical aspect.
Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Anna Żurek
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

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