This paper will share the results of research assessing the outcomes of teaching toward an ethnorelative worldview through psychology study abroad. Action research assessing the efficacy of intercultural pedagogy integrating psychology and the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS, Bennett,1986) using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI, Hammer & Bennett, 1998, 2002) w...

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 study explored the concepts of intercultural competence and cultural intelligence and clarified corresponding terms. Using the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) as an instrument and conducting multiple regression tests, this quantitative research investigated individual scale factors that would influence the intercultural competence of the students who declared an education major or minor ...

Based on actual cases, this paper asserts the factors necessary for successful development and implementation of educational programmes in intercultural teams. The findings, based on the authors’ several years of experience in the field, suggest that international course development is a resourceintense activity that must take into consideration the cultural differences and core competencies of...

The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current migration-related diversity policy debate. My defence will take two main lines of argumentation: Firstly, I will state that the increasing intensity of the intercultural policy paradigm mu...

This paper describes, analyses and compares the learning objectives and design of four roleplay simulations involving intercultural communication contexts. The aim is to elicit some practical observations in the search for an effective strategy for the creation of online roleplays that meet learning objectives involving intercultural communication settings. Can learning objectives be designed i...

This paper analyzes differences and commonality in pathological voice quality evaluation between two different scaling systems, GRBASI and RASATI. The results identified significant interrelations between the scales. Harshness, included in RASATI, is described as noisiness and strain in the GRBASI scale. Roughness is found to be the most consistent factor and easiest to identify by listeners of...

In a highly mediatized world, where the new media have the great potential to change existing cultural languages, one might assume that differences in communication tend to become levelled off. Or with the emergence of an apparently chaotic network of individual voices, a more thorough insight into the elements of different identities as well as into the verbal and non-verbal components of inte...

The article aims to explain what kind of intercultural communication competence is needed in border crossing labor markets. The experiences of international higher education students and information and communications technology (ICT) experts are analyzed in different Finnish working and educational environments. We seek answers to the following questions: How are language and communicative abi...

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...