In all educational contexts, technological developments and changes in pedagogical theory mean that any picture of current practice and attitudes must be dynamic. In many countries, the learning outcomes of foreign language courses now include intercultural communicative competence (ICC), although the precise model for teaching ICC varies even across the English-speaking world. Internet-mediate...

Intercultural communication is now a crucial part of our globalizing lives; however, not everyone has an opportunity to engage in an intercultural interaction with people from different cultures. Computer-based technologies are promising in creating environments for people to communicate with people from diverse cultures. This qualitative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research there...

This study investigates an instance of global enterprise systems (ES) deployment in the context of a multinational corporation (MNC). Based on an in-depth case study, we highlight a specific type of knowledge relevant to such context i.e., intercultural social knowledge. Such knowledge is particularly pertinent when members involved in the ES project come from different cultures, which makes co...

this paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between brazilian teachers and students of english, and intercultural communication between american teachers and brazilian students of english. the aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both brazilian and american speakers of english, and to connect these cues w...

this paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between brazilian teachers and students of english, and intercultural communication between american teachers and brazilian students of english. the aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both brazilian and american speakers of english, and to connect these cues w...

This article assumes that the internationalization of higher education demands more elaborate pedagogical approaches to utilise the experiences of multiethnic student groups and to facilitate every student’s acquisition of intercultural competencies. Drawing from three internationalisation ideologies embedded in the educational discourse, it is argued that intercultural communication – as a fie...

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...

This paper examines the current approaches used in the training of intercultural business communication such as cultural patterns and skills, and points out that these approaches mainly reflect the etic or culture-general perspective. What is missing is the emic or culture-specific perspective. In order to promote intercultural research based on both perspectives, this paper details ethnography...