Materials are the most noticeable components of every language-learning context. One of these materials is the specific textbooks being used by English language academies; they are crucial in directing EFL teachers and learners and guiding them through the route of language learning. The present study attempts to compare the cultural content of two course books being used currently in Iran call...

This paper examines the overall educational, social and cultural aims of internationalisation and internationalised curricula. Two specific goals expected to enrich graduates' generic attributes are identified: Intercultural competence and skills for critical reflection on the situated and non-neutral nature of knowledge. The challenges of fostering intercultural competence embedded within the ...

Voice over Internet Protocol(VoIP) enabled online learning service providers struggling with high attrition rates and low customer loyalty issues despite VoIP’s high degree of system fit for online global learning applications. Effective solutions to this prevalent problem rely on the understanding of system quality, information quality, and individual beliefs about the usefulness of this techn...

The authors review six virtual learning environments built to support the acquisition of cultural knowledge and communication skills: ATL, BiLAT, Croquelandia, Second China, TLCTS, and VECTOR. Each leverages modern 3D video game engine technology which allows high-fidelity simulation of new cultural settings, including representations of buildings, streets, art work, dress, voice, gestures, and...

Although a substantial amount of cross-cultural psychology research has investigated acculturative stress in general, little attention has been devoted specifically to communication-related acculturative stress (CRAS). In line with the view that cross-cultural adaptation and second language (L2) learning are social and interpersonal phenomena, the present study examines the hypothesis that migr...

culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...

Over the decades, English, more specifically Business has become a lingua franca in business world. Intercultural communication is becoming prevalent and essential with ever-changing ever-merging world economy. Adopting economic terminology crucial these conditions improving skills for efficient effective results imperative English proficiency matter of course, particularly occupations such as ...

Introduction. The globalization influences the education system, and medical is not an exception. Along with general communication skills undergraduate students should demonstrate their competence in intercultural communication. aim of study was to implement elective course “Intercultural Communication” Russian school validate adapted questionnaire evaluate effectiveness teaching for developmen...

Lina Lee University of New Hampshire The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction through ethnographic interviews with native speakers (L1s) supports autonomous learning as the result of reflective and social processes. The study involves 16 American undergraduate students wh...