The study explores the technical and intercultural challenges involved in a Department of State (DoS)-funded collaborative research project between a Mid-Sized Regional Public University in the U.S. and an International Research Institution in Pakistan. The collaborative research project on which the study is based is particularly significant as the groups from each institution face the central...

We argue that metacognition is a critical component in the development of intercultural competence by highlighting the importance of supporting a learner’s selfassessment, self-monitoring, predictive, planning, and reflection skills. We also survey several modern immersive cultural learning environments and discuss the role intelligent tutoring and experience management techniques can play to s...

Most successes in intelligent tutoring systems have come in well-defined domains like algebra or physics. We investigate how to support students in acquiring ill-defined skills of intercultural competence using an online environment that employs clips of feature films from a target culture. To test the effectiveness of a set of attention-focusing techniques (pause-predict-ponder) we created ICC...

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 for internationalization of the curriculum have not been widely translated into more internationalized course content and teaching methods in the classroom, particularly in scientific disciplines. This study a...

A comparative intercultural study on the so-called basic emotions anger, joy, fear, and sadness as well as neutral utterances was carried out based on samples of dubbed speech. The languages studied were the American English original of a popular TV series (Ally McBeal) as well as its German and Japanese dubbings. The production by the main male and female characters in all three languages as w...

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...

Sport is recognized as playing a relevant societal role to promote education, health, intercultural dialogue, and the individual development, regardless of an individual's gender, race, age, ability, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. Yet, it was not until the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London that every country's delegation included a female co...

Communicative feedback in human-human and human-computer interaction is of interest to both language and ICT researchers. In this study, unimodal and multimodal feedback, produced by Chinese and Swedish interlocutors, has been investigated in four Chinese-Chinese, four Swedish-Swedish, and eight Chinese-Swedish informal dyadic videorecorded dialogs. We are investigating two issues: First, what ...

In this issue of International Review, Karen Murphy, Guest Editor, offers Part I of a two-part topic, “Cultural Differences in Online Learning.” It is a special pleasure to announce my new position as Professor and Vice President of Project-Based Learning at the new and innovative Northface University in Salt Lake City. As this is written, we are busily engaged in the ground-up curriculum desig...

Our approach to the Log Analysis for Digital Societies (LADS) task of LogCLEF 2009 is to define three different levels of performance: success, failure and strong failure. To investigate the log files we adopt qualitative and quantitative methods. In a more qualitative approach we attempt to identify intercultural differences in user patterns by visualizing the user interactions with The Europe...