Observations of Arab and Jewish students and teachers in an Israeli bilingual/bicultural school were used to examine teacher-structured and student-initiated experiences of cross-cultural contact. Results suggested that educators should promote cultural fluency by creating environments that require students to engage each other's company.…

Interviews with 16 primary care practitioners and administrators were compared with those of 12 adult patients with limited English proficiency. Practitioners described skills and attitudes needed to communicate with these patients; solutions tended to be improvised. There were discrepancies between practitioners' and patients' descriptions of…

Discusses international students on campuses in the United States and examines cultural differences with a focus on communication processes and styles, and recommends ways to accommodate cross-cultural differences in information services in academic libraries. Includes a survey of relevant literature and draws on the results of focus groups.…

Suggests that "contact" between mainstream American culture and northern Plains Indian cultures is a communication process with historical and ongoing parameters. Presents examples of adaptations to new situations and new neighbors in the creation stories and contemporary songs of the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara peoples. Contains 17…

While scholarly journals are the primary means of communicating knowledge in virtually all academic fields, they face special problems and challenges in a period characterized by economic constraints, rapid technological change, and an increasing internationalization of knowledge. (MSE)

A group of students at Saint Laurent upper secondary school in Rotterdam produced a "video letter" to be sent to students at the Saint Michel school in Istanbul, Turkey. The video chronicled the school life of the Dutch students. The planning process and structure of the video are detailed. (MSE)

Examines the impact of culturally conditioned conversational strategies on student-teacher interactions. Contrasts conversational patterns with patterns demanded by the essay form. Notes that teachers should view a student's work as a process of translation from the student's conception of everyday conversation toward academic discourse. (MM)

Discusses the problems of communications models. Presents a channel-ratio model that focuses on problems arising from intercultural interactions and addresses some practical needs of business communicators. Describes assumptions of the model, its elements, and its dynamic operation. Gives examples of the model's application to verbal and nonverbal…

The study investigated the meaning of communication to 23 deaf college students. Analysis of the ethnographic interviews led to organization of informants' comments into 4 dimensions of communication: language-modality, affective, situational, and sociopolitical. Implications of a multidimensional perspective on communication for comprehensive…

Reviews the evolution of translation from an exchange of information within and across cultural boundaries to its current status as a scholarly endeavor. Translations may have far-reaching effects in the target and source culture. Translators should be cognizant of the foreign language and culture in order to successfully realize their role as…

Discusses the power of translation to construct representations of foreign cultures while simultaneously constructing domestic subjects. Foreignizing and domesticating are the two main translation strategies. This article shows how translation forms particular cultural identities, maintains them with a relative degree of coherence, and creates…

Discusses some of the problems the author encountered in staging a production of Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" in Moscow. States that the area of largest concern was cultural variables, and whether a Russian audience would be able to understand some of the references. Concludes that, despite cultural differences, the audience was…

Explores the difficulties encountered by international students while trying to balance satisfactory cross-cultural communication with maintenance of a cultural identity. Communication problems occur in areas where the cultural contrasts are most significant. The key to solving cross-cultural communication and preserving cultures is development of…

Presents a business communication scenario for students to role-play and analyze, using a systematic process for identifying communication roadblocks occurring on the job, especially when communicating with people from diverse backgrounds and other countries. Discusses ways to improve the communication process to enable students to develop…

Describes development of the Turkish Children and Mothers project, started in 1985 to improve opportunities for Turkish migrant children in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Discusses how the initial organization of groups for five-year olds to help them with linguistic, motor, and cognitive abilities and social behavior for one year before school entry…