In the fast-changing modern world of today, learners need global skills for life-long learning and effective communication. Among these skills are intercultural competence and critical thinking. Although teachers have acknowledged the importance of the inclusion of global skills in their actual teaching procedures, they still need more concrete methodology and tangible pedagogical frame...

In its journey across the globe, English has become increasingly localised by many communities of speakers around the world, adopting it to encode and express their cultural conceptualisations, a process which may be called glocalisation of the language. The glocalisation of English and the dynamics of increased contact between people from different cultural backgrounds, or transcultural mobili...

This study explored the concepts of intercultural competence and cultural intelligence and clarified corresponding terms. Using the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) as an instrument and conducting multiple regression tests, this quantitative research investigated individual scale factors that would influence the intercultural competence of the students who declared an education major or minor ...

The present study sought to examine Latino intercultural competence via two separate methodologies. Phase 1 entailed discovering and generating themes regarding the features of intercultural competence based on semistructured interviews of 15 Latino adults. Phase 2 included conducting a cultural consensus analysis from the quantitative responses of 46 Latino adults to determine the cultural mod...

Kültürlerarası iletişim yetkinliğine yönelik olarak literatürde çalışmaların bulunmasına rağmen, yapılan bu büyük bir kısmında nitel yaklaşım benimsemiştir. Nicel araştırma yapılabilmesi için kültürlerarası yetkinliği ölçeği ilk Arasaratnam (2009) tarafından oluşturulmuştur. Mevcut çalışma, tarafında geliştirilen ölçeğin Türkçeye uyarlanması, geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışmalarının yapılması amaç...

from paper presented at BAAL IC SIG Annual Seminar:Language Teaching and Language Learning, University of Edinburgh, March 2014. The main aim of the talk is to explore the role of (critical) cultural awareness in teachertraining pedagogies. Based on the assumption that language teachers want to develop theirstudents’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC), it behoves the teach...