Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is an emerging business approach adopted by many software development organisations in developed countries. However significant outsourcing failure rates have also been reported. One of the major issues in is cultural distance which should be taken into account by software outsourcing organisations (vendors) in order to develop high quality softw...

In fact students have already received almost totally grammatical rules during their several years study, but they often lack of the ability to actually use English and to understand the use in normal intercultural communication. Misunderstandings caused by cultural differences have involved them frequently in intercultural miscommunication. The purpose of this paper is to present the concept o...

The present study sought to examine Latino intercultural competence via two separate methodologies. Phase 1 entailed discovering and generating themes regarding the features of intercultural competence based on semistructured interviews of 15 Latino adults. Phase 2 included conducting a cultural consensus analysis from the quantitative responses of 46 Latino adults to determine the cultural mod...

Effective selection procedures constitute an important factor in increasing expatriate success. However, research lacks findings regarding which skills to screen in international selection processes and whether to base expatriate selection on a culture-specific or culture-general skill profile. In an attempt to gather such evidence, an empirical study was conducted in the United States and Germ...

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One way to develop intercultural sensitivity in learners is through the inclusion of intercultural training in ELT and teacher training courses. This study aimed at enhancing the intercultural sensitivity of EFL pre-service teachers through interactive culture-focused speaking tasks. Therefore, a task-based syllabus was designed based on the principles of constructivism and intercultural themes...

The world will be harmonious one, the people with different religious beliefs in the world should strengthen close intercultural communication. And the intercultural communication will avoid any different wrong recognition about religious beliefs and respect different religious beliefs from different countries and cultures. Otherwise, it will cause unstable, inharmonious and terrible disaster o...

This position paper presents the efforts we have undertaken to study the impact of intercultural factors on global software development projects. A bottom-up approach looks at the effect of individual intercultural factors on software practices, while a top-down approach strives to identify positive or negative organizational and behavioral patterns.

BACKGROUND Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how purposefully medical specialists think they practise intercultural communication and how they reflect ...

The paper deals with the features of teaching of profession-related texts reading in a foreign language to bilingual students in agricultural higher education institution. Article’s purpose was to analyze the technology of intercultural competence formation by means of profession-related texts reading. The method of intercultural competence formation included using the profession-related texts ...