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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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Wu, Xi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students' achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Ena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
While current conceptualisations of the inextricable connection between language and culture in English language education are largely informed by complex sociocultural theories that view culture as constructed in and through social practices among people, classroom practices continue to be influenced by mainstream discourses of culture that…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Psaltou-Joycey, Angeliki – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper discusses culture-specific learning strategies of 177 students learning Greek as a second/foreign language in an academic setting. The study reports on descriptive statistics of the data collected through implementation of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and processed in order to determine frequency of learners'…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Strategies, Cultural Differences, Instructional Materials