Analyzes the interpreter's role in international business ventures. Presents descriptive models of the role, highlights major implications executives should consider before hiring an interpreter, and poses research questions based on these implications. (SR)

The author of an article on the spread and teaching of English as an international language (EIL) replies to others' response to his ideas on the role of English in various international circles, the contexts and patterns of use of English, and English second-language instruction. (MSE)

Discusses the challenges of designing a Chinese/English Web site in Taiwan for both Chinese- and English-speaking audiences, creating a single, consistent presentation. Explores how the Web-site development team reconciled different audience responses and tackled technological, cultural, and political issues. (SR)

Offers, in a whimsical poem, reflections on what motivates students planning to study or travel abroad, the countries they choose to visit, the challenges they overcome, the initial culture shock, and the rewards of travel. Reflects on exchanges in unfamiliar languages, differences in culture, and varied traditions. (CH)

The assumption of cultural homogeneity that underlies the strategy of counselor/client match based on cultural background, and incongruities in the theory and practice of multicultural counselling and therapy are challenged. An innovative, disclosure-based alternative to resolving counselor/client value conflicts is presented and illustrated.…

Finds that U.S. managers writing letters of complaint used a direct organizational pattern and tended to state the main idea or problem first before sharing explanatory details, whereas the standard Korean pattern (written by Korean managers for whom English is a second language) was indirect and tended to delay the reader's discovery of the main…

Summarizes key findings from counseling, advisement, and intercultural communication literature that are associated with multicultural competence, including the academic and modeling role of the advisor. Offers a conceptual framework of standards for developing multicultural communication advisement competence. (Author/DB)

Investigates verbal adaptive strategies employed for mutual orientation and management of role relationship in dyadic conversations involving undergraduate students (American and East-Asian nonnative speakers of English). Finds that dyad types were differentiated by significantly different levels of interaction involvement, different amounts and…

Investigates how nonnative speakers of English approach questions and answers posed to them to provide an explanation of how they resolve communication problems they face at an international conference. Results suggest that there are not many differences observed from Japanese and Korean querists and respondents in terms of their use of discourse…

Successive Delphi panels begun in Belgium and extended to other European nations examined adult education's contribution to life problems and adult education policy. A major issue involved institutional and linguistic equivalence of the terms and concepts used on the survey instrument. (SK)

Argues for giving higher priority to developing cross-cultural competence in communication. Examples are provided from Japanese, where knowledge of cross-cultural pragmatics helps a learner construct meanings. Also included are examples of two approaches to designing curricula that would create contextualized opportunities for learners to develop…

Article describes two organizations, the Latin American Youth Center and the Asian Pacific Development Center, that have a number of programs that foster relationships among youth and families of various races and cultures. It presents ways in which they work towards helping families adjust to U.S. culture. (Author/JDM)

Confirms the advantages of immersion in a foreign language in a study abroad context, but points out some of the problems that arise for individual students. Highlights the difficulties two students encountered in their stays with French families: they were uncomfortable with their hosts, barely spoke French, and were led to misinterpret French…

Examines the public speaking patterns of Kenya, and compares those findings to the content of American introductory public speaking courses. Finds that most frequently mentioned areas of difference between American and Kenyan public speaking were establishment of speaker credibility, structure of the speech, selection of supporting materials,…

Describes Euroland, a virtual world that was generated within the context of a joint research project between The Netherlands and Italy aimed at the facilitation of cross-cultural communication and collaborative knowledge building between schools using a variety of communication formats, including text-based versus visual and synchronous versus…