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...

One innovative use of digital games is to facilitate learning skills with social components by simulating human behavior with virtual humans. We investigate learners' social goals to understand how they help learners learn intercultural skills from virtual humans in BiLAT, a virtual world that teaches cross-cultural negotiation. We hypothesize that students learn more when they approach the sim...

This paper reports on a pilot study that incorporated discipline specific clinical skill development with intercultural and interprofessional education (IPE) experiences for eight health professions students on clinical placement in a Disability Program in Vietnam. The aim of this study was to examine students’ experiences of interprofessional work while in an intercultural learning environment...

BACKGROUND In our globalizing world, caregivers are increasingly being confronted with the challenges of providing intercultural healthcare, trying to find a dignified answer to the vulnerable situation of ethnic minority patients. Until now, international literature lacks insight in the intercultural care process as experienced by the ethnic minority patients themselves. We aim to fill this ga...

Etherington SJ. But science is international! Finding time and space to encourage intercultural learning in a contentdriven physiology unit. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 145–154, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00133.2013.—Internationalization of the curriculum is central to the strategic direction of many modern universities and has widespread benefits for student learning. However, these clear aspirations fo...

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 2 pp. 95–102 Address for correspondence: John W. Berry, Queen’s University, 154 Albert St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. E-mail: [email protected] The Pacific region encompasses perhaps the most diverse set of cultures in the world. From indigenous peoples in East Asia and the Pacific islands, through to those in the Western hemisphere, and fr...

AIM To examine the existing situation, barriers and consequences of the intercultural communication in health institutions and to offer training models for strengthening and improving communication skills of health professionals in the Republic of Macedonia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the relationship between patients and health professionals. A total of 813 heal...