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Chunwen Su – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This ethnographic study reports four teenage Chinese EAL students' learning journey in a UK independent school. Due to linguistic barriers, they encountered significant challenges in their social lives and academic studies. The school arranged EAL lessons to improve students' English proficiency. However, participants were concerned that the EAL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Adolescents, English (Second Language)
R'boul, Hamza – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
Western-centric perceptions of knowledge, behaviors and communication are more dominant and often obscure underrepresented non-western communities. This renders the mission of intercultural communication education (ICE) necessarily encompassing the reconsideration of these hierarchies and differentialisms. This article argues that by…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Intercultural Communication, Non Western Civilization, Social Differences
Ladegaard, Hans J. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
With rising nationalism across the world, and increased tension between East and West, internationalisation of tertiary education is arguably more important than ever before. This paper reports on a study of international and local students' experiences of intercultural encounters in two Hong Kong universities. More than 100 students from all over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Intercultural Communication
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House: Decolonising Intercultural Communication
Ferri, Giuliana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
The issue of representation has polarised public discourse and in recent years the decolonisation of research methodologies has entered the field of interculturality. However, universalistic discourses of dialogue and tolerance can be harnessed to silence certain voices by construing them as 'other'. With this paper I confront this conceptual knot…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Prosocial Behavior, Colonialism, Research Methodology
Zhou, Vivien Xiaowei; Pilcher, Nick – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
In this paper, we explore intercultural communication as dialogue occurring in a third space. Through seven students' reflective essays on group-based intercultural learning, we analyse the ever-shifting communicative space that interlocutors produce through negotiating the meanings of difference and power and their dialogic relations with the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Ethics, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Chi, Ruobing; Zhang, Hongling; Kulich, Steve – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
Intercultural teaching often emphasizes exposure to and understanding of cultural differences. Although it acknowledges the importance of cultural self-awareness, little research has been done to explore how such a goal is achieved. This article adopts collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to explore the creation, development, and use of variations…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
An, Ran; Zhu, Jiajia; Li, Yuran; Zhu, Hui – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This study examines the acculturation characteristics of Chinese students in the context of a multicultural classroom. The Chinese yin-yang philosophy is used to provide another dimension of interpretation and analysis in addition to Berry's acculturation strategy framework. Qualitative data over a five-year period reveal their changing…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Multicultural Education, Asians, Asian Culture
Tekgül, Duygu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This study seeks to analyze book group discussions on translated fiction in terms of micro public spheres. The paper explores the potentials of this perspective based on ethnographic data collected through participant observation with reading groups located across Britain. The discussion demonstrates the public sphere in operation beyond the…
Descriptors: Fiction, Clubs, Books, Group Discussion
MacDonald, Malcolm N. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This paper will carry out a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the ways in which the 'discourse of thirdness' is constituted within the field of intercultural studies. It will firstly critically review the autochthonous conceptualisations of the Third Space and other metaphors of 'thirdness' in language education. It will then use corpus…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Intercultural Communication, Computational Linguistics, Journal Articles
Abid, Nadia; Moalla, Asma – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
This paper evaluates the potential of intercultural contacts portrayed in the content and tasks of a Tunisian EFL textbook for third-year secondary school students to develop the model of the intercultural speaker. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the elements of intercultural contacts reveal that this portrayal is imbalanced in terms…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
Wang, Tianyi; McLaughlin, Colleen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This paper investigates the role of interpreters in addressing cultural differences in the context of a cross-cultural collaborative teacher professional development project. Based on positioning theory, this study employed interpreter-mediated interactions and interviews to reveal the complex roles that interpreters played when interpreting…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Faculty Development, Translation, Language Processing
Sabbah-Taylor, Angela – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This article is an investigation into the characteristics of intercultural competence in a face-to-face tandem language learning context between English and Chinese postgraduate students. It examines idiomatic meaning exchanges through the adoption of a conversation analytical perspective. It is a contribution to the existing body of knowledge on…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Graduate Students
McKinley, Jim; Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
With the number of international postgraduate students in UK universities steadily increasing, there is great interest in understanding how institutions can more effectively meet these students' expectations and needs through programme-supported development of intercultural competence. This paper reports on a project that explored experiences and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Graduate Students, Student Needs
Baker, Will; Sangiamchit, Chittima – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
SNS (Social Networking Sites) are a ubiquitous social space for many, often involving the use of English as a lingua franca in highly multilingual and multicultural settings. This article presents an ethnographic investigation of communication among a group of international students on a popular SNS. The data illustrates the fluid and complex…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Peck, Catherine; Yates, Lynda – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
The 'intercultural turn' in foreign language education has brought to the fore the need to foster intercultural competences. Yet in contexts where virtually all intercultural communication is mediated by English as a foreign language (hereafter EFL), proficiency in that language determines to a large extent access to intercultural experiences,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)