Integrating Multimedia Technology Into Teaching Intercultural Communication

Animating the curriculum: integrating multimedia into teaching.

At many medical schools, the medical library assists faculty in finding and integrating new technology into the classroom, student laboratories, and lecture or small group sessions. Libraries also provide faculty with a place to do development. This paper recounts the author's experience creating software-based educational materials. In the process of creating the Slice of Life videodisc and de...

Integrating ultrasound technology into teaching gross anatomy: point of order!

U ltrasound (USS) or ultrasonic imaging is now a mature technology having a well-established place in clinical practice and accounting for about one in four of all imaging procedures worldwide (1). More recently, USS has become the latest noninvasive method of morphological study to aid or supplement the teaching of gross human anatomy in some medical school curricula (2 6). Indeed, an expandin...

Intercultural Communication and Teaching a Second Language in Russia

The paper analyzes the problem of teaching a second language in Russia with the help of techniques of intercultural communication. For the purpose of this paper we define teaching a second language with the help of intercultural communication as a strategy of successful teaching, based mostly on the social-geographic and mental and emotional approaches. We built up a system of teaching a second...

College English Teaching Viewed from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

1.1 Terminology Intercultural communication or communication between people of different cultural backgrounds has always been and will probably remain an important precondition of human co-existance on earth. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework of factors thatare important in intercultural communication within a general model of human, primarily linguistic, communication. The te...