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Ying Shan Doris Zhang; Kimberly A. Noels – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on discussions of cultural empathy in intercultural communication and counselling and multicultural psychology, this paper presents a model and a measure of cultural empathy suited for a broad range intercultural interactions -- the Intercultural Empathy Index (IEI). We examined the IEI's psychometric properties via two studies involving…
Descriptors: Empathy, Intercultural Communication, Counseling, Psychology
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Mireia Trenchs-Parera; Andreana Pastena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university -- and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom -- manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, College Freshmen, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Hiltrud Awad; Mireia Trenchs-Parera – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Extensive research has been done to identify the conceptual components of intercultural competence (IC), which resulted in a plethora of models and a wide array of differently defined constructs that are in use today to develop and assess IC. However, the majority of IC research comes from relatively similar contexts that are westernised, high on…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Practices, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Simpson, Ashley; Dervin, Fred – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Situated within research and practice on intercultural communication education, this paper suggests an urgent inclusion of dialogism and ethics in the ways it is dealt with around the world. Supranational institutions such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Council of Europe, treat intercultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Guidelines, Intercultural Communication
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Xi Wu; Paul Tarc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu's social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Working Class, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Tabitha Kidwell; Hanung Triyoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Regular and sustained contact with speakers of other languages might offer members of multilingual societies opportunities to develop cultural awareness through interactions with diverse individuals. This study examines how the language awareness of individuals in a highly multilingual setting can act as a resource to support their learning about…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
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Tsang, Art – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In the context of the exponential growth of multicultural campuses worldwide and the consequent need for students to engage in intercultural interaction, this article reports on parts of the findings of a study examining the relationships between learners' backgrounds (language and intercultural experiences) and their intercultural views and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Intercultural Communication, Multilingualism, Student Attitudes
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Lev Ari, Lilach; Husisi-Sabek, Rabia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of intercultural encounters with the Other (between Jews and Arabs) during graduate studies, at colleges of education and university education departments, on the level of intercultural competence reported by them. Intercultural competence means a long-term change in the level of knowledge,…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Arabs, Jews, Graduate Students
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Maeder-Qian, Jingyue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The goal of this article is to examine intercultural experiences and the cultural identity reconstruction of Chinese international students in Germany by focusing on their cultural learning, and use of multiple languages including English as a lingua franca (ELF), German and Chinese. Three rounds of individual interviews over 1 year were conducted…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Hua, Zhu; Handford, Michael; Young, Tony Johnstone – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This paper examines how intercultural communication (ICC) and the notion of culture are framed in on-line promotional discourse of higher education (HE) ICC courses. It analyses a specialised corpus comprised of 14,842 words from 43 course websites of master's programmes in ICC in the UK and the US--internationally, the two largest providers of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Computational Linguistics, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
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Panos, Alexandra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
New Literacy Studies and related scholarship on the use of digital tools in classrooms support the argument that literacy practices can be understood as translingual and transcultural practices within the context of an otherwise monocultural and monolingual setting. Pushing for broader conceptions of "mono" settings and arguing for…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Poverty
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Jin, Lixian; Cortazzi, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication
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Schartner, Alina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Educational sojourns abroad are not only increasingly popular; it is also believed that they have many positive outcomes for students. The transformative potential of a study sojourn abroad has been claimed in linguistic and broader intercultural terms (e.g. Brown [2009] "The Transformative Power of the International Sojourn: An Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Outcomes of Education
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Spencer-Oatey, Helen; Dauber, Daniel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
According to a recent report, the top skill that employers are looking for in graduates is an ability to work collaboratively with teams of people from a range of backgrounds and countries. So as universities seek to internationalise, an important question is how successful they are in developing this skill. Both research and anecdotal evidence…
Descriptors: Teamwork, International Education, Skill Development, Cultural Awareness
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