The current study attempted to cast light on the status quo of Iranian EFL teachers' perceptions of ICC. It further attempted to see if their experience would influence their conceptualizations of ICC. To this end, a total of 100 EFL teachers were asked to complete a questionnaire survey adapted from Han & Song's (2011) study. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed a...

This study presents evidence of the impact an innovative pedagogical practice that cultivates and develops intercultural competence undergraduate college students. 15 U.S. students enrolled in a business abroad course 12 Chinese participated virtual student exchange project spring 2019. Using global distance learning technology, collaborated on to provide joint comprehensive investment recommen...

In this paper, we explore ways in which the results of our studies on emotion communication across cultures (on which we report in the other paper we present at this symposium) can be used as a starting point for material and activity design, within a language socialization approach, and with a view to develop learners’ intercultural competence. Starting from theoretical and pedagogical conside...

The article deals with the issues of intercultural competence: concepts, structure, principles and methods development. It reveals definition concept communication reviews international approaches to defining multicultural competence its components in modern pedagogy. is considered as ability communicate effectively appropriately various cultural contexts that has numerous include motivation, s...