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...

This study is dedicated to the peculiarities of functioning and adaptation borrowings from foreign languages as a result interaction with Chechen language in processes globalization. The authors noted importance this problem connection growing society, which, turn, promotes activation its use one state Republic all organizations institutions. It that at nowadays Anglicisms sphere finance, law i...

Between 1500 and 1600, the Jesuit Ricci carried out a real process of inculturation Christianity in China. Subsequently, he operated according to acculturation: form colonialism. This consisted also construction churches, which were built neo-Gothic style. In 1926 dom Gresnigt was sent China with aim creating new Sino-Christian style, supported by Bishop Costantini missionary policy. These atte...

BACKGROUND Business educators have advocated that in order to build faculty's intercultural capability, it is vital to provide them with professional development in using intercultural training resources and with "community of practice" support in adapting such resources for enhancing their students' intercultural learning. This approach has been adopted in an Australian action research project...

Intercultural learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge and skills that support the ability of learners to both understand culture and interact with people from cultures different from their own. It is developmental in the sense that learners advance through stages of progressively more sophisticated stages of understanding. This understanding includes that of different cultures as well a...

Developing L2 learners' intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking is essential for second language learning. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of photovoice on intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking. To this end, a sample of 48 intermediate EFL learners was recruited from an English language institute in Isfahan, Iran and placed into a photovoice group (PG) and...

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is critical for today’s business leader who wants to interact competently across borders. However, developing and evaluating such competence is a challenge. One concept that provides a holistic conceptualization of intercultural competence is the notion of “mindfulness” or the ability to use reflection as a co...

Designing intercultural communication and cooperation systems involves at least two central issues, i.e., concepts for modeling communication and the legitimacy of communication norms and conventions established through modeling and designing. This paper discusses the concept of genre in regard to modeling communication and reflects on how discourse-ethical principles may inform the design of i...

This paper reports an early result of an evaluation experiment of emotionally expressive characters for intercultural communication. The experiment was conducted as a series of discussions on a multilingual BBS with expressive characters between China and Japan. The result shows some characters and facial expressions used in the experiment were interpreted completely differently and used for di...

This study investigated para-professional translators' intercultural communicative competence (ICC) level and its relation to their translations. The research design of this is descriptive research. Twelve participants are participating in the techniques data collection employed questionnaires tests. results show that : (1) average ICC translators moderate with a score 3.0; (2) translation work...