Discusses questions directed at the content and relevancy of social work education and practice in South Africa. Uses the multicultural approach to explore cultural issues in service delivery to the Nguni people. Suggests that the theoretical tools of South African social work must incorporate the clients' knowledge and values. (SV)

The underlying framework for academic discourse about Native education has been the acculturation model, involving the dialectic of two cultures juxtaposed in an asymmetrical relationship. First Nations discourse seeks to elucidate the unifying context to which those in discourse belong. Together, these discourses provide multidimensional views of…

Five factors significantly affecting attitudes toward international issues were identified in a survey of 1,083 college students: cosmopolitan outlook, cultural pluralism, political liberalism, perceptions, and attitudes of understanding and acceptance. (SK)

Proposes a model for learning and training for intercultural communication competence. Discusses the five levels of the model. Presents five categories of questions to challenge cultural stereotypes. (RS)

Suggests some specific things to consider when preparing print, interactive electronic, or visual materials for clients outside of North America. (SR)

Describes the unusual community/university collaboration at the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh. Shows how education and inquiry can help construct an intercultural discourse in which teens enter a policy discussion about suspension and in which college mentors enter the discourse on inner-city teens. (SR)

Describes the efforts of the National Catholic Educational Association to establish connections between Russian and Lithuanian educators and the Catholic educational community in the United States. Describes the delegation's travels to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Vilnius and their interaction with Eastern European educators around in October…

Discusses a problem involved in teaching English pronunciation--the question of intelligibility. Previously intelligibility has meant that nonnative speakers were intelligible to native speakers; the increase in the use of English for communication between nonnative English speakers has complicated this issue. Implications for teaching and study…

Investigates the behavioral manifestations of stereotype-based expectancies. Finds that undergraduate students who went into a cross-cultural interaction with a relatively developed, neutral preconception about someone from another culture behaved different verbally than those who entered an interaction with minimal preconceptions. (SR)

Reviews the scholarly literature in cross-cultural business communication and discusses its shortcomings. Demonstrates the limitations of the Western, linear paradigms and expounds upon some inadequately researched and unresolved important questions. Develops 10 testable hypotheses for the 1990s. Advocates developing new paradigms and concept…

Using computational analysis, describes and analyzes selected lexical, discourse, and stylistic elements of English in international management that are essential for public identification of management and the manager. (Author/VWL)

Discusses David Crystal's book, "English as a Global Language." Highlights the "history" of the dominance of English in the main English-speaking countries, language and global relations, language in education, and language rights. (VWL)

Discusses a program at Rice University (Texas) where there is a mandate to advance the education of a globally competent citizenry through the study of language and culture. The program has initiated the integration of communication and cross-cultural competence into language sequences, created one-credit modules in English on the foreign…

Suggests a theoretical framework to incorporate the new cultural environment into studies of international communication. Illuminates the context of the shift in postwar international communication research. Offers some theoretical discussion toward developing an approach to international communication that considers the cultural-ideological…

Asks whether it is possible to develop an international, cross-cultural consensus on the meaning and characteristics of democracy and which common elements of these should constitute education for civic democracy. Outlines an international project, Democratic Citizenship: A Framework, in an attempt to answer these questions. Discusses possible…