Introduction Collaboration in design has become a geographically and culturally dispersed activity. Increasingly, design educators see the need to prepare young designers for an international market by providing students with skills not only for design, but also for intercultural communication and distributed collaboration research into computer-supported, intercultural collaborative design lea...

increasingly intercultural dimension of communication in the 21st century has brought about challenging aims in efl (english as a foreign language) pedagogy, such as ascertaining the enhancement of the learners' intercultural awareness and promoting their ability to communicate in intercultural settings. taking the disadvantage of efl environment in terms of intercultural input into account, co...

This study examined how friendship types, levels of friendship, and cultural backgrounds affected breadth of self-disclosure (BSD). BSD was measured with six self-disclosure topic items—in which higher scores indicated greater willingness to engage in conversations about various topics—from three groups with varying experiences with intercultural friendships. Confirmatory factor analysis was us...

The practice of integrating western and traditional indigenous medicine is fast becoming an accepted and more widely used approach in health care systems throughout the world. However, debates about intercultural health approaches have raised significant concerns. This paper reports findings of five case studies on intercultural health in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Suriname. It pr...

Intercultural communication competence and skills have become increasingly essential for translators to succeed in the global language industry. While some university translation programs offer a specific course explicitly covering intercultural communication, others teach it implicitly, embedding other practical courses. The main aim of study is shed light on ways adapting courses interpreting...

Nowadays, cross-cultural communication has become the mainstream in business activities. It not only requires participants to master adequate foreign cultural knowledge and professional knowledge, but also have strong basic skills application languages. As most common language world, intercultural is still based on English. Therefore, English more concerned by Chinese education community. The d...

Due to Covid-19 and the inaccessibility of study abroad for some students, we successfully tested an alternative building intercultural effectiveness -- a glocal classroom (GC) pedagogy highlighting assessment as learning. Over 15-week course, GC replicated work context job demands expert global leaders developed skills via activities simulations. Pre-posttest measures Intercultural Effectivene...