Globalisation and technological advances have contributed greatly to increasing mobility in higher education (HE). One of the main stakeholders this process are lecturers, for whom internationalisation is often understood as simply use a lingua franca—usually English—in their teaching (then known English medium instruction, EMI) detriment other key factors such intercultural competence. The pre...

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In recent years, the importance of developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has gained significant traction. Since language teachers are expected to play a crucial role in helping students develop their ICC, this review article aims analyze research available about construct understand its implications for teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL) academic settings. It begins by...

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been accentuated with the wave of globalization. Universities in China have highlighted ICC language classrooms. Following Byram’s (1997) model (including knowledge, skills, and attitudes), this study focuses on efficacy explicit instruction developing among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners classrooms China, to discover how developmen...

The paper analyzes the problem of teaching a second language in Russia with the help of techniques of intercultural communication. For the purpose of this paper we define teaching a second language with the help of intercultural communication as a strategy of successful teaching, based mostly on the social-geographic and mental and emotional approaches. We built up a system of teaching a second...

PURPOSE Health care professional education programs in the United States have been charged to devise strategies to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of the workforce (Health Resources and Services Administration, Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/grants/nwd.html, 2014). The purpose of this charge is to develop a healthcare workforce that can better provide cu...

This paper introduces the theory of communicative competence by Hymes, the interpretation of communicative competence by Canale & Swain, the elements of efficient communication by Widdowson respectively, and the limitation of the previous application in China with the teaching environment of Classroom plus blackboard, analyzes the necessity and feasibility of creating authentic communicative en...