Cultural Encounters with the English-Speaking World

A comparison of general practice encounters with patients from English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether doctor-patient encounters in general practice with patients from a non-English-speaking background (NESB) differ from encounters with patients of English-speaking background (ESB) in terms of the type of practice where the encounters occur and the type of problems managed. DESIGN AND SETTING A national cross-sectional survey of GP-patient encounters from a sampl...

Cultural Encounters and Self Encounters in Early Modern English Travel Autobiographies

Travel journals and diaries written by English travellers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are intent on relating individual experiences to the expectations and values of the people encountered abroad as well as those who remain at home. Their prefaces and epistles aim to reaffirm an awareness of cultural order and control prior to recounting a tale of fantastic, possibly unnerving, e...

Interrelationships of Willingness to Speak and Cultural Identity with English L2 Speaking Proficiency

Regarding the belief that willingness to communicate is strongly tied with developing some insights into the L2 culture, such a connection may not be always positive and the issue of cultural attachment and identity may sometimes function as a hindrance. Individuals are believed to be highly emotional in terms of “religion and spirituality", among other components of cultural identity. This stu...

Supporting cross-cultural communication in real-world encounters

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Supporting Cross-Cultural Communication in Real-World Encounters