There is scant research on the Chinese employees’ intercultural communication competence (ICC), despite increasing recognition of importance ICC as a qualified staff in international organizations. To explore employees and their perceptions, this study used mixed methods by drawing semi-structured interview follow-up questionnaires sensitivity with 7 participants. The findings show that partici...

Intercultural communication competence (ICC) has been increasingly popular in English language teaching recent years. However, since there are no instructional design frameworks to integrate intercultural content into EFL teaching, not all educators familiar with the strategies of raising ICC their classrooms. Therefore, main goal this study is come up for promoting The following provides some ...

In the increasingly globalized world, intercultural competence is of great importance. Intercultural sensitivity one important contents competence. This study uses Sensitivity Scale developed by Chen & Starosta among 132 undergraduates who are non-English majors in Hunan Institute Technology an attempt to understand current situation their and correlation between five major dimensions sensitivi...

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Reflection on one’s own behaviour and practice is an important aspect of lifelong learning. However, such practice and the underlying assumed principles are often hidden from the learner’s vision, and are therefore difficult to evaluate. Social interactions with others stimulate the learner to re-asses and reflect on the nature of the learner’s own behaviour and practice, such as in professiona...

this paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the british and taiwanese teenage intercultural communication corpus (batticc). more specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of british and taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

how do english as a lingua franca (elf) speakers achieve multimodal cohesion on the basis of their specific interests and cultural backgrounds? from a dialogic and collaborative view of communication, this study focuses on how verbal and nonverbal modes cohere together during intercultural conversations. the data include approximately 160-minute transcribed video recordings of elf interactions ...

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...

Our times are often referred to as the ‘new world order’ with its ‘new economy’. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural and linguistic contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual ...

The study of intercultural interaction has recently become one the topical problems social psychology. Considered often in context developing competence, they nevertheless ignore mechanisms that underlie causes effective or ineffective communication. mechanism by which competence contributes to efficiency is described an integrative model interaction, unites a group theories communicativistic a...