English for Specific Purposes (ESP), as the bridge curriculum between an ordinary English (EGP) and the English, helps meet the actual needs of students, so it is necessary to introduce ESP into College English teaching. In this paper, based on the needs analysis theory, it studies demand conditions of English for Specific Purposes for non-English majors through questionnaires. The survey finds...

This paper presents some points of view about the counseling psychology skills that are required in intercultural education context. issue arises from rather massive migration has been observed European Union countries, since 2007, involving three million persons until 2015. Especially Greece received directly largest number refugees, among due to its proximity Middle East as Southeastern “Gate...

BACKGROUND Business educators have advocated that in order to build faculty's intercultural capability, it is vital to provide them with professional development in using intercultural training resources and with "community of practice" support in adapting such resources for enhancing their students' intercultural learning. This approach has been adopted in an Australian action research project...

Over the decades, English, more specifically Business has become a lingua franca in business world. Intercultural communication is becoming prevalent and essential with ever-changing ever-merging world economy. Adopting economic terminology crucial these conditions improving skills for efficient effective results imperative English proficiency matter of course, particularly occupations such as ...

Developing L2 learners' intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking is essential for second language learning. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of photovoice on intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking. To this end, a sample of 48 intermediate EFL learners was recruited from an English language institute in Isfahan, Iran and placed into a photovoice group (PG) and...

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is critical for today’s business leader who wants to interact competently across borders. However, developing and evaluating such competence is a challenge. One concept that provides a holistic conceptualization of intercultural competence is the notion of “mindfulness” or the ability to use reflection as a co...

Designing intercultural communication and cooperation systems involves at least two central issues, i.e., concepts for modeling communication and the legitimacy of communication norms and conventions established through modeling and designing. This paper discusses the concept of genre in regard to modeling communication and reflects on how discourse-ethical principles may inform the design of i...

This paper reports an early result of an evaluation experiment of emotionally expressive characters for intercultural communication. The experiment was conducted as a series of discussions on a multilingual BBS with expressive characters between China and Japan. The result shows some characters and facial expressions used in the experiment were interpreted completely differently and used for di...

The paper argues that impoliteness may work differently in intercultural interactions than in L1 communication. Most researchers (cf. Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2009, 2010; Haugh, 2011) analyzing impoliteness within one language seem to agree that no act is inherently impolite, and that such a condition depends on the context or speech situation that affects interpretation. This may not be quit...

This study is constituted by three components. The first will examine how Chinese scholars and Western sinologists have characterized modern Chinese intellectual history and what directions they have proposed for future intellectual development in China. The second section will construct a hermeneutic model of intercultural understanding and discuss its implications for the evaluation of modern...