The paper discusses an original research project in the area of education and cross-cultural rhetoric on the use of persuasive digital technologies to enable intercultural competencies among students and teachers across globally-distributed teams. The paper outlines the methodology for the research, including the use of video conferences, collaborative blogs, a project wiki, webforums, and Goog...

Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students’ awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and countries in intercultural communication. Participating...

As the number of foreign people living in Japan has rapidly increased in the last decade, the necessity for intercultural understanding among Japanese people and foreigners alike is becoming more imperative. In the higher education system of Fukui prefecture in Japan, the researcher and her co-researchers aim at developing an original Intercultural Training program using information and communi...

This paper aims to survey language teaching MOOCs that promote intercultural competence (IC). Specifically, the identify keywords most relevant with IC components, languages taught, offering countries, and embedded soft skills. The selection of is important because they can indicate connection between different disciplines. After trialing a broader set in several rounds initial search, we ident...

INTRODUCTION To date, technical communication has been strongly related to written forms of communication. However, articles in past issues of Technical communication have revealed that oral modes of communicating technological, scientific, and business information (including technical presentations and business negotiations) have increasingly become an essential part of professional technical ...

Intercultural competence has become a central feature of intercultural communication education as means assessing students’ development. Like other university courses, teachers and stakeholders need to find ways account for development achievement in learning. Previous research shown that there is not one single way student’s competence; instead employing variety measures such quizzes, interact...

In this paper we discuss intercultural communication using the notions of high-context and low-context cultures. Using examples from English and Finnish conversations, we exemplify dialogue strategies and relative speaker and hearer responsibilities via three conversational aspects: anaphoric references, topic introduction, and disjunctive questions. The examples show different interpretations ...

Greeting behaviors are important tools for establishing and maintaining social relationships. Greeting expressions are abundant in English and Chinese. One major difference of greetings in English and Chinese lies in the content. They are influenced by the orientations of interpersonal relationships which in turn are underpinned by value orientations. Increasing awareness of intercultural diffe...