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Kellie A. H. Carstensen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study examined how informal Conversations in English (CIE) groups helped migrants gain cultural knowledge about communicating in the United States and how the CIE groups facilitated the process of language socialization. The Ethnography of Communication (EC) and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) were used to understand the connection between…
Descriptors: Socialization, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Babaii, Esmat – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
Intercultural communicative competence has been offered as an open-minded replacement for ego-centric biases stemming from dogmatic national prejudice and its associated self-aggrandisement. While being a commendable proposal, its implementation in foreign language education has not been a widespread success story. Recent attempts to theorise…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Planning
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Laia Canals – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Besides linguistic benefits, e-tandem virtual exchanges provide opportunities for intercultural meaning negotiation in interaction. However, several studies showed that learners in such exchanges often engage in lengthy interactions but do not always succeed in intercultural communication. The present paper examines intercultural negotiation of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Speech Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Curran, Nathaniel Ming – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This article considers the potential of language-focused online teaching platforms (OTPs) for fostering intercultural communication among their users. Drawing on interviews alongside an analysis of two OTPs websites, I argue that OTPs' webpages (re)produce banal nationalism grounded in nation-language congruence and instrumentalist language…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, Intercultural Communication, Web Sites
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Dengler, Rebecca – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
English language learners should become successful intercultural speakers and global citizens promoting qualities that go beyond national boundaries. Supposed to be globally appropriate, global course books from Global North publishing houses reproduce coloniality and are neither neutral nor free of nationalism. Local(ised) teaching materials…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Colonialism, Decolonization, Second Language Learning
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Benachour Saidi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
Decolonial theorists continue to argue for a de-linking from the uncontested onto-epistemic constructs of intercultural education pedagogy (IEP) in TESOL. In the Global South, intercultural education may remain largely amenable to Euro-Western culturalist/differentialist frameworks that often breed essentialism and ethnocentrism. This paper…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Decolonization, Models, Foreign Countries
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Xiaoyan I. Wu; Bernadette M. Watson; Susan C. Baker – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Mainland Chinese students' (MCSs') cross-cultural adaptation experiences in Hong Kong have remained under-researched. Our study investigates this phenomenon with a language and social psychology approach and explores the role of Cantonese ability and communication with locals. We invoked Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Sino Tibetan Languages, Student Attitudes
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Lourdes Rey-Paba; Kathleen A. Corrales; Jahir Lombana-Coy; Jhonny Segura Antury; Héctor Fabio Bianchá Ramírez; Shamir Shah; Silvia Juliana Castro López – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This paper reports on a mixed methods study which explored whether English medium instruction (EMI) fosters the development of intercultural competence (IC) in students (n = 91) in eight courses taught by seven professors in two Colombian universities. Voluntary participants, through surveys, focus groups, and interviews, perceived that students…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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)
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Ratna Andhika Mahaputri; Emi Emilia; Eri Kurniawan; Suwarno – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
Although the notion of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been widely promoted in language classrooms, few empirical studies report how social media, such as Instagram, could be used as a virtual learning platform to engage students in learning how to communicate interculturally. Framed within the global Englishes (GE) concept as the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Intercultural Communication, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Fang Gao – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
To facilitate intercultural communicative competence, language learners are invited into the triadic capacity of Thirdness, where the social and critical interpretations of intercultural dialogue are explored. Little is known of the specific pedagogical stages to create such a terrain for the development of students' sustainable intercultural…
Descriptors: Humanism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Student Attitudes
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Hongjing Liao – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Symbolic competence is integral to intercultural teaching and learning, but limited research and teaching guidance exist in foreign language classrooms. This paper explores the use of critical incidents in developing the symbolic competence of advanced-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at a Chinese university. Mixed methods…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Nur Banu Gümüs; Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study explores the results of an eTwinning project involving four countries, with a focus on collaboration between students from historically distant backgrounds: Turkey and Greece. It primarily aims to foster empathy and understanding, alleviate language anxiety, and enhance foreign language competence among the participants. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs, Grade 7
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Zia Tajeddin; Zari Saeedi; Neda Khanlarzadeh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study investigated the effects of collaborative reflection (CR) on Iranian English language teachers' intercultural instructional practice. The data were gathered by observing the classroom instruction of four novice and experienced teachers before and after eight CR sessions. The result revealed that CR was an effective tool for improving…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Collaboration, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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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
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