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Camerer, Rudi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The testing of intercultural competence has long been regarded as the field of psychometric test procedures, which claim to analyse an individual's personality by specifying and quantifying personality traits with the help of self-answer questionnaires and the statistical evaluation of these. The underlying assumption is that what is analysed and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Psychometrics, Personality Traits
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Canto, Silvia; Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This article attempts to shed some light on the possible learning benefits for language acquisition and intercultural development of authentic social interaction with expert peers through computer mediated communication (CMC) tools. The environments used in this study are video communication and the 3D virtual world "Second Life." For…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research, Control Groups