This article aims at investigating intercultural awareness development among Moroccan high school learners. It focuses on the central role of ‘attitudes’ component in helping learners get involved successful encounters. The study adopts Byram’s (1997) communicative competence (ICC) as an influential model that has brought education to forefront teaching-learning process. Research reveals concep...

Abstract This study seeks to understand opportunities for teaching and learning the target culture intercultural awareness. Utilizing Moran’s Knowing Framework (2001) its five cultural dimensions, reviewing curriculum documents English textbook in use Grade Six Kosovo, finds a misalignment among regarding understanding. It is noted that while share goals objectives preparing students become glo...

We believe it is important to do holistic, systematic study of intercultural adaptation. Our approach is based on the theoretical proposition of the multi-dimensional and functional organization of behavioral acts and human activities developed by A.I. Krupnov. It allows investigating not only separate aspects but the whole system, considering hierarchy and interaction of the components constit...

The importance of intercultural challenges is recognized by both the practitioners and researchers in offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) relationships. These challenges affect almost all the activities involved in offshore software development outsourcing relationships especially communication, mutual understanding, interpretation and decision making processes etc. which in turn l...

With the progressive acceleration of globalization in the world, the study of intercultural communication is accordingly flourishing day by day on both domestic and international levels. In order to discern the current trends of intercultural communication research in China and abroad and furthermore provide suggestions for future research, the present study has made an analysis of 368 intercul...