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Ya-Ying Huang; Michael Byram – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study develops an intercultural and intergenerational model for teaching Mandarin as a second language, aimed at enhancing international students' intercultural communicative competence. Three native Mandarin-speaking kindergarten children in Taiwan, with no English knowledge, participated in a university Mandarin class with international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhou, Vivien Xiaowei; Pilcher, Nick – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
In this paper, we problematise a competence-oriented reflective approach to intercultural education by drawing on four students' reflective essays about their experiential learning experiences on an "Intercultural Competence" (IC) module. Their reflections sometimes evidence much-vaunted IC attributes such as "tolerance" and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Empathy, Experiential Learning
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Frimberger, Katja – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
The following article explores the potential of Bertolt Brecht's theatre pedagogy for intercultural education research. It is argued that Brecht's pedagogical views on theatre connect to those interculturalists who prioritise the embodied dimensions of intercultural encounters over a competence-driven orientation. Both share a love for aesthetic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Workshops, Drama, Foreign Students
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Chen, Hsin-I – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article presents a case study that examines how an online social networking community is constituted through intercultural discourse on the part of one learner sojourning in the US. Using Byram's model of intercultural communicative competence, this study examines the learner's naturalistic communication in a social networking site (SNS). The…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Multilingualism
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Harsch, Claudia; Poehner, Matthew E. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Educational institutions are acknowledging the requirements of a globalized world on students' mobility, interculturality, and language skills by offering study-abroad programmes. These need to be accompanied by procedures to assess student needs prior to and during their time abroad as well as upon their return. In the exploratory study reported…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Metacognition, Foreign Students
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Dasli, Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This paper aims to contribute to the current debate on British Studies from the perspective of eight international students attending a British Studies module in part completion of a foundation/access programme in the UK. Drawing on three sets of in-depth student interviews and 15 classroom observations used to triangulate findings, the analysis…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes