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AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
Anecdotally, language learners often struggle to acquire intercultural understanding. Teaching intercultural understanding presents significant challenges for language teachers.
Alistair Welsh
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Understanding intercultural transitions of medical students [PDF]
The aim of this research was to explore the transition of medical students to an international branch campus of a medical university established in Bahrain.In order to gain insights into this transition, we explored two culturally diverse systems of learning of the university and the local schools in Bahrain, using Communities of Practice as a lens for
Hayes, AL, Mansour, N, Fisher, R
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Teaching Cultural Taboos and Taboo Language for Intercultural Awareness and Understanding
The goal of the paper is to show that language can support social and intercultural competence of both students and teachers: one of the ways to do it is teaching cultural taboos and taboo language for intercultural awareness and understanding.
Georgeta Raţă, Elena-Mirela Samfira
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‘Bildung’ and Intercultural Understanding: A Dialogical Approach [PDF]
In this introduction to the special issue on Bildung and dialogical self theory (DST), I explain why the notion of Bildung warrants elaboration in a special issue of the Journal of Constructivist P...
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Identifying Cultural and Cognitive Proximity between Managers and Customers in Tornio and Haparanda Cross Border Region [PDF]
Daily intercultural interactions in cross-border regions such as those between customers and managers can be a source of knowledge and ideas. However, such interactions can pose distinctive constraints and opportunities for learning and exchange of ideas.
Basile R. +17 more
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E-Module Speaking Based Gamification to Improve Students’ Intercultural Understanding
This study aims to develop a "gamified" e-module so that students' intercultural understanding improves in the Speaking for General Communication course.
Hanifah Hanifah, Elsa Ernawati Ninggolan
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University Leadership Based in the Humanities: An Interview with Prof. Hanne Leth Andersen
Interview with Prof. Hanne Leth Andersen Rector at Roskilde University, DENMARK
Hanne Leth Andersen
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Transformative Learning Through Cultural Immersion [PDF]
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. +2 more
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This article deliberates on widening children’s horizons with picturebooks. The authors share with us their explorations in different Japanese settings: a preschool, a state primary school and an out-of-school picturebook read-aloud group, always with ...
Alison Hasegawa +3 more
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Migrant integration remains a continuous challenge in many EU countries, as shown by the retreat from multiculturalism and the concerns regarding Muslim migrants. In recent years, the increase in asylum-seekers has added further complexities to the issue.
Andrea Carlà +4 more
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