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...

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...

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 2 pp. 95–102 Address for correspondence: John W. Berry, Queen’s University, 154 Albert St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. E-mail: [email protected] The Pacific region encompasses perhaps the most diverse set of cultures in the world. From indigenous peoples in East Asia and the Pacific islands, through to those in the Western hemisphere, and fr...

This research examines the dynamics of consensus building in intracultural and intercultural negotiations achieved through the convergence of mental models between negotiators. Working from a dynamic constructivist view, according to which the effects of culture are socially and contextually contingent, we theorize and show in two studies of U.S. and Chinese negotiators that while consensus mig...

The current study examined the structural composition of the communication networks of Korean immigrants’ ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital. The study measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ monocultural and intercultural orientations. A total of seven hypotheses, drawn from Smith’s...

Macau’s unique cultural identity as a Special Administrative Region of China has been attributed to its historical blending of East and West and the confluence of the diverse origins of its people. According to definitions from the Bank of English, blending includes: “mixing and mingling”; “to look good together, harmonize”; “a mixture produced by blending.” In terms of the blending of people a...

Objectives To explore patients' preferences and experiences regarding intercultural communication which could influence the development of intercultural patient-centred communication training. Methods This qualitative study is based on interviews with non-native patients. Thirty non-native patients were interviewed between September and December 2015 about their preferences and experiences re...

Romantic relationships are situated within broader cultural and family contexts, and this may be particularly salient to those in intergroup relationships. This study examined variations in young adults’ experiences with intercultural romantic relationships by ethnicity and immigrant generation. A sample of ethnically diverse young adults (N 1⁄4 628; Asian, Latino, and European background) repo...

Metadiscourse markers help writers make coherent and reader- friendly texts, thus of considerable importance in academic writing. The main aim of this study was to investigate how interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers are used by Iranian EFL learners. An inquiry was carried out to investigate cross-cultural similarities and differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in the Di...