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Fred Dervin, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This Handbook is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on the notion of interculturality, reflecting on what the addition of the adjective 'critical' means for research and teaching in interdisciplinary studies. The book consists of 35 chapters, including a comprehensive introduction and conclusion. It aims to present current debates on…
Descriptors: Guides, Masters Programs, Doctoral Programs, Intercultural Communication
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Gong, Eleanor Yue – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese, Language Usage
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Strotmann, Birgit; Kunschak, Claudia – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
Globalization has impacted higher education to an unprecedented degree, resulting in a need for students and teachers to be prepared for interaction in culturally and linguistically diverse environments at home and abroad, in both the university and the workplace. The present case study at a university in Spain collected questionnaire, individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Diversity, Cultural Awareness
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Shaules, Joseph – Intercultural Communication Education, 2019
This article reflects on current conceptualizations of intercultural understanding by reexamining the ideas of pioneer thinkers Marshall McLuhan and Edward Hall. It argues that common notions of intercultural understanding are reminiscent of McLuhan's ideas-as a form of advanced perception and higher forms of awareness. It will argue, however,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Empathy, Bias
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Misiaszek, Greg William – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This article will discuss Paulo Freire's global influences on environmental pedagogies and argue that ecopedagogical reinventions are essential for 'quality' education, as touted in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4, for global, all-inclusive 'development' that is planetarily sustainable. The politics of how 'development' is…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Teaching Methods
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Yue Li; Anne K. Armstrong; Marianne E. Krasny – Online Learning, 2024
How can we create a "global-at-home" learning experience for university students to engage them in serving global professional communities online? This study applied global engagement surveys alongside interviews and focus groups in online contexts to examine engaged learning outcomes of U.S. and Chinese university students who served as…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Teaching Assistants, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Nieporowski, Piotr; Steciag, Magdalena; Zábranský, Lukáš – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The following article attempts to characterise the current changes in the communication of people living in the area of Polish-Czech borderland based on the results of the study conducted in 2018 and 2019. The aim is to determine the dominant mode of supranational communication, as well as the reason behind its prevalence by analysing the language…
Descriptors: Polish, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Baker, Will; Fang, Fan – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
A frequently stated aim of the increasing internationalisation of higher education (HE) is the incorporation of intercultural elements. This has recently been conceptualised through the notion of intercultural citizenship with universities promising to equip graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in global workplaces and…
Descriptors: International Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Tarp, Gertrud – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
As a consequence of accelerating globalisation there has been an emphasis on developing international students' proficiency to communicate in a foreign language. However, willingness to communicate in a foreign language other than English is an issue less discussed. This case study is an attempt to clarify expats' experience of living in Denmark…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Nguyen, Thi Chau Ngan; Kettle, Margaret; Doherty, Catherine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This paper investigated the language resources needed for communication in Vietnam's import/export services and the level of alignment with the associated English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course. To examine the communicative practices used in this workplace, the study employed methods of semi-structured interviews and a collection of 48 emails…
Descriptors: Higher Education, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tan, Kim Hua; Farashaiyan, Atieh; Sahragard, Rahman; Faryabi, Fatemeh – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The position of the English language in the world has recently undergone an enormous shift. The global spread of English has altered its status from being a homogeneous and standard language spoken by a few powerful countries into an international language or lingua franca spoken by a wide variety of speakers around the world (Llurda, 2004). The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lenkaitis, Chesla Ann; Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This article investigates how engaging students to discuss topics that reflect their ideologies in lingua franca (LF) virtual exchanges can help facilitate global citizenship development. A six-week virtual exchange is explored with students from universities in Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the USA. This study utilizes five key elements of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Computer Mediated Communication, Citizenship Education
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Kubota, Ryuko; Takeda, Yuya – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Foreign language education primarily aims to cultivate learners' competence to communicate in an additional language. However, the meaning of communication competence is not entirely transparent, especially given the current neoliberal valorization of communication in the knowledge economy. The meaning of communication can be scrutinized in two…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Trapè, Roberta – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper concerns a virtual exchange project between the University of Virginia (UVa), United States, and an upper-secondary school in Pavia, Italy. Centred on the question of gender equality, the project has been designed to take place over three years (2018-2021) with a direct reference to Robert O'Dowd's transnational model of virtual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Exchange Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Students
Mohamadsaid, Ashqi; Rasheed, Shaima – Online Submission, 2019
This paper will focus on the aims to show for us why English known as a global language and why other languages do not have this ability. It is argued that English as a global language has some advantages to people around the world. One of the advantages is that English language is utilized as a tool of communication, empowerment and unification…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Language Role, Intercultural Communication
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