The paper presents a framework, combined with a checklist for designing and evaluating multimodal, intercultural ICT, especially when embodied artificial communicators are used as front ends for data bases, as digital assistants, as tutors in pedagogical programs or players in games etc. Such a framework is of increasing interest, since the use of ICT across cultural boundaries in combination w...

People doing work from home are mostly depending on what the internet has to offer for communication. Because people want make good use of Internet communication, such information is available in English as a global language. One advantages having ready that local cultural products can now have better chances compete globally with other cultures. those Indonesia’s Batik Semarangan, which produc...

Etherington SJ. But science is international! Finding time and space to encourage intercultural learning in a contentdriven physiology unit. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 145–154, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00133.2013.—Internationalization of the curriculum is central to the strategic direction of many modern universities and has widespread benefits for student learning. However, these clear aspirations fo...

The current study examined the structural composition of the communication networks of Korean immigrants’ ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital. The study measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ monocultural and intercultural orientations. A total of seven hypotheses, drawn from Smith’s...

background and objectives: effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. cultural competence is key to effective communication. the aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   methods: twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. data we...

One of the most recent concerns foreign language education is intercultural competence, which has been recognized as one its major objectives due to increasingly globalized context. Intercultural competence was even incorporated in National Standards Teaching Quality for Undergraduate English Majors issued by Ministry Education China 2015. Telecollaboration argued be an effective tool develop s...

This paper discusses some of the challenges in constructing multimodal intercultural artificial communicators. Such challenges concern the notions of intercultural communication and culture, e.g. what aspects of culture are investigated and what methods are used. The paper also presents two example of types of investigation that are needed and concludes with a short discussion of some consequen...

This paper investigates the attitudes towards English of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain) by focusing on their region origin language competence. The research examines individual joint effect both variables development attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to 954 Secondary Education. Results reveal that competence are influential attitudes, there is no when includ...