BACKGROUND Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how purposefully medical specialists think they practise intercultural communication and how they reflect ...

We argue that metacognition is a critical component in the development of intercultural competence by highlighting the importance of supporting a learner’s selfassessment, self-monitoring, predictive, planning, and reflection skills. We also survey several modern immersive cultural learning environments and discuss the role intelligent tutoring and experience management techniques can play to s...

We argue that metacognition is a critical component in the development of intercultural competence by highlighting the importance of supporting a learner’s selfassessment, self-monitoring, predictive, planning, and reflection skills. We also survey several modern immersive cultural learning environments and discuss the role intelligent tutoring and experience management techniques can play to s...

intercultural communication takes place when individuals influenced by different cultural communities negotiate shared meanings in interaction. as every country has its own cultural value system; consequently, nonverbal communication is different from country to country. therefore, having knowledge about the similarities and differences of nonverbal communication in different cultures increases...

This chapter explores intercultural communication in the health and social care setting. It is written from a psychological perspective and explores some of the variables that are central to the topic of intercultural communication. Little of the current health and social care literature in Britain has addressed the issue of intercultural communication. This chapter argues that understanding mi...

this study investigated the cognition of 70 tunisian teachers on the place of culture in english education. it showed that tunisian teachers believe that english textbooks and curricular documents are not specific about the cultural dimension of efl. it also revealed that l2 teachers, whose mother culture is distant from that associated with l2, hold ambivalent attitudes towards culture. they a...

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 paper reports on a preliminary study on second language (L2) learners’ interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) development in academic written discourse by examining how epistemic modality is used by non-native speaker (NNS) writers compared with NS writers in both native speaker (NS) and NNS corpus data. This study also investigates how NNS writers gradually develop interlanguage pragmatic competen...