Developing Learners’ Intercultural Understanding through a CLIL Approach

Developing Intercultural Awareness and Language Speaking Proficiency for Foreign Language Learners through Cross-Cultural Voicemail Exchange

To expand global and intercultural communication, the effectiveness of asynchronous online communication devices, especially email, have been discussed in the area of foreign language teaching. A lack of specific research exists that addresses the application of online voicemail. This paper reports on a five month period of voicemail exchanges between 53 EFL learners in Taiwan and 56 CFL learne...

Developing Intercultural Awareness and Skills in English Majors: A Constructivist Approach

In the fast-changing modern world of today, learners need global skills for life-long learning and effective communication. Among these skills are intercultural competence and critical thinking. Although teachers have acknowledged the importance of the inclusion of global skills in their actual teaching procedures, they still need more concrete methodology and tangible pedagogical frame...

jundishapur, a symbol of intercultural understanding

Developing Understanding of the Idea of Communi- ties of Learners

A spoken language understanding approach using successive learners

In this paper, we describe a novel spoken language understanding approach using two successive learners. The first learner is used to identify the topic of an input utterance. With the restriction of the recognized target topic, the second learner is trained to extract the corresponding slot-value pairs. The advantage of the proposed approach is that it is mainly datadriven and requires only mi...