[PDF] Top 20 Intercultural competence and the promise of understanding

... of intercultural communication ...essentialist intercultural communication theory with its rigid attribution of cultural identity along national lines ...of intercultural foreign language ...of ... See full document

... While there were many definitions, this is the one that seemed most germane: Engineering is a process of applying limited resources to achieve a defined result. This definition provided us with a good starting point for ... See full document

... studying abroad experiences, and attending international events (Emert, 2008; Fabregas Janeiro et al., 2011; Fretheim, 2007; Golay, 2006; Herbst, 2011; Jeffrey, 2007; Keefe, 2008; Mark, 2004; Medina-Lopez-Portillo, ... See full document

... of intercultural competence tends to focus on the ability of an individual to achieve effective and appropriate interaction in intercultural situations based on her or his knowledge, motivation, and ... See full document

... of understanding” ...primitive understanding of dialogue and argued that “in the dialogue of cultures we are talking about the dialogism of truth itself, that understanding another person requires ... See full document

... have intercultural communicative competence that goes beyond linguistic ...promote intercultural communicative competence in foreign language ...learning. Competence in ... See full document

... deep understanding and rich experiences of the target language ...the intercultural competence and the communicative competence as the mainstream conception of language teaching and learning ... See full document

... gain intercultural competence, s/he has to have the qualifications of these four ...to intercultural learning and other cultures, “curiosity” and ...and understanding are included in this ... See full document

... sojourners’ intercultural communicative competence, a group of projects have emerged and demonstrated that through well-designed short-term study abroad programmes, sojourners could also obtain high levels ... See full document

... an understanding of how people make sense out of their lives, delineate the process (rather than the outcome or product) of meaning-making, and describe how people interpret what they experience” (Merriam, ... See full document

... their intercultural competence to a greater extent and subsequently present their translation of culture-bound text at a higher level of quality than translation students who exhibited a lower level of ... See full document

... 3. Minimization – At this phase the students are aware of other cultures but at the same time can learn a lot about their own culture. ‘Minimization, as a transitional mind- set, highlights cultural commonality and ... See full document

... 150 from discussing more complicated cultural topics and issues, as Mr. Chen said: “The discussion has to be cut short or called off due to a lack of English proficiency, as students cannot further the discussion in ... See full document

... culture-generic competence only marginally fulfills this need due to its inherent ...assessable) competence. The fact that all of intercultural work is wholly unpredictable per se puts many people ... See full document

... by abandoning this seemingly unrealistic notion of ‘native-like’ proficiency, ELT can concentrate on other skills and procedures deemed equally valuable in ELF exchanges. There have been several communication strategies ... See full document

... supporting intercultural collaboration need to be complemented by individual ...common understanding by the negotiation of ...cognitive competence of ICC clearly unknown to the students and ICT ... See full document

... Part of the challenge to change the current paradigm has to do with the requirement in Byram’s model of intercultural competence to link foreign language education with a social, political and ethical ... See full document

... participative competence, the intercultural competence is a product of the network of interactions in time and ...of intercultural competence development, process that can be achievable ... See full document

... of intercultural communicative ...of intercultural communicative competence had been perceived by secondary-school teachers of English in Slovakia before they were intensively ...of ... See full document

... Although used in an almost informal vernacular sense in many contexts, the notion of 'competence' in language use is somewhat difficult to define (Witte and Harden, 2011, 3). Attempts to explicate the notion tend ... See full document