Strategic Competence: Bridging the Cross-Cultural Communication

The Culture, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Dimensions in Communication

Culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.Each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...

The Relationship between Extraversion/Introversion and the Use of Strategic Competence in Oral Referential Communication

    This study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (SC) in oral referential communication by Iranian EFL learners. Referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore English stud...

Promoting Cross-Cultural Competence in Intelligence Professionals

Recent publications have highlighted alternative analytical thinking strategies to inform and facilitate improved intelligence analysis. Red teaming, fast and slow thinking, divergent thinking, as well as other strategies have been identified as essential to understanding today's radically different, nontraditional landscape that analysts and collectors are expected to operate in: to understand...

Cross-Cultural Training: Bridging Japan and Sweden

the culture, intercultural and cross-cultural dimensions in communication

culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...