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Rubenfeld, Sara; Clement, Richard – Language Learning, 2012
This study investigates the role of components of intercultural competence in the use of intercultural mediation behaviors. Through the use of the Revised Intercultural Mediation Measure, an instrument revised by the authors, 291 Anglophone and 161 Francophone participants in Canada were asked to indicate their likelihood of employing various…
Descriptors: Role, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Conflict
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Catford, J. C.; Marckwardt, Albert H. – Language Learning, 1988
To mark the 40th anniversary of "Language Learning," the journal's first article is reprinted and identifies five motives for studying foreign languages: (1) "knowledge of a foreign language is the sign of a cultivated man"; (2) foreign insularism; (3) necessity of creating a political fusion; (4) trade and colonization; and (5) scientific and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Language Attitudes, Language Role