Discusses programs for employees of global corporations seeking to learn more about language and culture. Detailed information is provided on the Ceran immersion program in Spa, Belgium. (Auth/JL)

Introduces an eight-step process for training social workers to become more effective multicultural practitioners. The first three steps--acknowledge cultural differences, know yourself, and know other cultures--are discussed and accompanied by experiential exercises to help practitioners recognize their own culture-bound beliefs, identify…

This article describes Skilled Dialogue, an approach to cultural competency developed in response to the challenges posed by cultural linguistic diversity. Skilled Dialogue focuses on cultural competency as the ability to craft respectful, reciprocal, and responsive interactions across diverse cultural parameters. Characteristics, component…

Reviews recent research on intercultural learning and reports on a yearlong e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university students. Identifies key characteristics of e-mail exchanges that helped to develop learners' intercultural communicative competence. Outlines elements of e-mail messages that may enable students to develop…

Discusses the problems related to cultural pluralism, differences among the groups living in Israel, and social studies education within Israel. Focuses on the sociology curriculum, offering a rationale, description, and information about intercultural education. Addresses how this curriculum format has affected students in terms of their…

Examines Mexican Americans' social identities and group political consciousness toward dominant White majority and other ethnic groups. Explores effects of intergroup and intragroup contacts on social and political identity attitudes. Evidence supports relationships among contact types, social identity, and political consciousness. Anglo contact…

Investigates discontented responses within and between American and Chinese cultures. Finds (contrary to current theories) only marginal cultural differences. Provides possible explanations for this inconsistency. (SR)

Proposes analysis focusing on linkage mechanisms between ethnic populations and wider socioeconomic environments. Examines roles and motivations of "ethnic brokers" between community agencies and Mexican-Americans settling in Riverside, Wisconsin. Suggests integration of two levels of analysis helps clarify micro-level contributions to…

The relationship between language use and second culture acquisition is examined in this study of first generation Iranian immigrants and exiles in the United States. The use of both Farsi and English is found to be instrumental in the process by which American culture is incorporated within the Iranian worldview. (AF)

Discusses the development of the International E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC) mailing lists at St. Olaf College (Minnesota) to increase intercultural contact between students. Five separate lists target primary and secondary education, higher education, projects, surveys, and general discussion. Provides brief descriptions of and e-mail…

A survey of 997 college students enrolled in business communication courses in 5 U.S. universities investigated students' awareness of intercultural nonverbal communication. Among the variables considered was the subjects' own ethnic or cultural origin. Results indicate significant lack of awareness of intercultural differences. (MSE)

An electronic mail project designed to create personal dialogue between native speakers and college students in a modern French civilization course is described. It was found that French participants added nuance to generalizations about their culture and brought understanding to certain historical events occurring during the course. Linguistic…

Presents survey results from U.S. and Japanese high school and college students on the current state and future of the relationship between their two countries. Identifies major issues and explaining how to improve the relationship. Concludes that the students were most concerned with the development of understanding between the two cultures. (DK)

Describes an individual's experience returning to his native Czechoslovakia, 43 years after fleeing Communism. Discusses problems faced in transforming people conditioned to an authoritarian state into citizens of a democracy. Stresses that good intentions and sincerity are not enough to understand area studies and the importance of intercultural…

Compared African American college students' counseling expectations at two universities with different racial majorities. The type of university attended exerted the most powerful effect on counseling expectations of subjects. Counseling professionals must help African American students fully understand issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and…