This study investigated the effects of learner variables on Chinese bilingual undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity and effectiveness. A total 439 students from different universities answered a battery questionnaires. Major findings were: (a) participants reported moderate to high level effectiveness; (b) no significant gender difference occurred in effectiveness, except for Interaction En...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristics Japanese and Korean nursing students’ intercultural sensitivity, which is important when caring for culturally linguistically diverse patients. By investigating sensitivity across different countries with value systems, we may grasp how students can prepare providing competent, highquality care patients backgrounds. Methods...

In response to the cultural diversity in Indonesia, multicultural education is required provide students with a proper level of intercultural sensitivity. However, prepare for an ideal future generations, teachers must undoubtedly master sensitivity, even since they are still studying university, as prospective teachers. Therefore, this study aimed quantitatively investigate sensitivity at UIN ...

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is critical for today’s business leader who wants to interact competently across borders. However, developing and evaluating such competence is a challenge. One concept that provides a holistic conceptualization of intercultural competence is the notion of “mindfulness” or the ability to use reflection as a co...

Designing intercultural communication and cooperation systems involves at least two central issues, i.e., concepts for modeling communication and the legitimacy of communication norms and conventions established through modeling and designing. This paper discusses the concept of genre in regard to modeling communication and reflects on how discourse-ethical principles may inform the design of i...

This paper reports an early result of an evaluation experiment of emotionally expressive characters for intercultural communication. The experiment was conducted as a series of discussions on a multilingual BBS with expressive characters between China and Japan. The result shows some characters and facial expressions used in the experiment were interpreted completely differently and used for di...

The paper argues that impoliteness may work differently in intercultural interactions than in L1 communication. Most researchers (cf. Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2009, 2010; Haugh, 2011) analyzing impoliteness within one language seem to agree that no act is inherently impolite, and that such a condition depends on the context or speech situation that affects interpretation. This may not be quit...