This article outlines a course guide where students partake in community service projects over the course of sixteen weeks in order to interact and communicate with people from other cultures. The course consists of various components that include having the students participate both in the classroom and at the community service site, examinations to test students’ growth in intercultural communication, and self-reflection papers. The expected results for this course, which run parallel to testimonies given in the articles from students that took the course, include increase in cultural awareness and intercultural communication skills. This article gives a more practical side to ICC compared to the other studies; one where an entire course is dedicated to teaching students the topic.
This author purposes to integrate intercultural communication competence into language learning classes. The research article goes over the importance of teaching culture in those type of classes since they complement each other, where understanding a culture will help students understand the language better and vice versa. A majority of the article goes over implementations of culture learning through the use of technology. He also proposes possible ways to test for intercultural learning. This paper gives a strong overview of the importance of teaching ICC and its relation to language.
This study looked at the growth in ICC and acculturation, the degree one adapts to a different culture, in international students attending a university in China. This study was conducted by surveying 302 international students that attending Central China Normal University. Key findings include that Asian international students were less motivated to adapt to the ...
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This research article highlights the challenges people face in Japan in practicing and improving ICC and how a class teaching ICC would help Japanese citizens in becoming more globalized. The author mentions one of the present attempts for this goal being a learning program that is already in place in Japan that gives out international communication management certificates to its students upon completion of the course. The author then transitions into offering such a course to be assimilated into universities, the benefits of having such a course, and the significance of having such a qualification. This study provides a different setting then the other studies, a country where intercultural communication competence is hard to hone, and also supports the paper topic by suggesting it being taught in college classrooms.
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Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2013). Intercultural Communication in Contexts (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Online communication host’s unique opportunities for education but the time lapses, absence of social, visual and auditory cues create a communication handicap. The diversity of community college provides unique opportunities for intercultural relationships as well as intercultural challenges hoping to meet different goals, and come from different backgrounds
Martin, Judith N., and Thomas K. Nakayama. Intercultural Communication in Contexts. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013. Print.
When communicating with others with differing cultures, it is important that both parties are able to communicate effectively while keeping in mind differing culture. Developing and understanding of the concepts of cultural self-awareness and cultural intelligence are an integral part of effective cross-cultural communication (Quappe & Cantatore, 2003). The following essay will briefly explore these concepts, and examples of where they can be applied. Specifically looking at how the development of cultural intelligence relies heavily on an understanding and development of cultural self-awareness. The importance of Cultural self-awareness and the development of cultural intelligence will be seen by discussing the important role it plays in allowing
Cross-cultural competency is a key learning objective for this Professional Development Resource. In order to become competent one must understand the aspects of cross-cultural communication and the theories that have been proposed in the literature....
Many people who go to visit or work in another country suffer some misunderstanding from the local people, because they have a different culture. Different culture will cause disparity points of view about almost everything. In the article, Intercultural Communication Stumbling Blocks by Laray M. Barna, there are five stumbling blocks mentioned that are seen in a cross-culture communication. These blocks are: language, nonverbal signs and symbols, preconceptions and stereotypes, the tendency to evaluate and high anxiety. Barna wants to use these stumbling blocks to show the common blockades between different cultures. I agree with what she thinks about the language, nonverbal signs and symbols, preconceptions and stereotypes, and the tendency
Communication is key to surviving in society. Because we have such variety and diverse cultures within our communities, communication can become very complex in the human interaction. Because mutual or common significance is essential for communication to take place effectively, people from diverse cultures need to establish some universal ground and develop an open, optimistic approach towards other diverse cultures. The significance of educating a compassion and sympathy towards dissimilar regulations and prospects of people from other cultural groups cannot be overstated. The culturally aware individual will profit not just from enhanced communication but also from connections created with individuals from a broad ranges of cultures. Sincerity to the divergence that subsists within each individual is an essential element for a flourishing intercultural communication. An understanding of diverse morals, manners and viewpoints, must be cultivated. Understanding by positioning oneself in the other person´s place allows a communicator to view the world from a further perception. Act...
Intercultural communication is an evolving discipline that occurs between individuals from contrasting backgrounds. It include...
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...s encountered by Chinese background students in intercultural communications. This study also suggests including knowledge of nonverbal communication into EFL teaching so as to enable English learners to become fully competent in the targeted language, because nonverbal communication is used in everyday communication, and it is one of the prerequisites to acquire intercultural communicative competence.
Humans have been communicating since four million years. On the other hand, the birth of culture is estimated to have taken place about 35,000 years ago. Today, both culture and communication have evolved considerably and have become interdependent of one another, to the point that communication is considered to be a product of culture. Thus, our own culture has a deep impact on our thoughts and behaviors. Since each culture has its distinct aspects, intercultural communication can be the cause of conflict and disorder. There are three main issues which are at the root of the problem of intercultural miscommunication : language as a barrier, cultural diversity and ethnocentrism. I will analyze these three notions in situations in which intercultural communication is frequent such as : the workplace, the classroom and vacation trips.
It is worth mentioning that engaging in both spoken and written business communication is believed to be a tool to learn, deal and communicate as members of target discourse community in a bilingual or multilingual world. What is more, culture of the target language is widely seen to play a significant function for more successful interaction on the international domain and these learners are generally labeled by Soler and Safont jordà’s (2007) words as ‘intercultural speakers. Moreover, using this language is widely considered as a ‘cultural act’ (Crozet and Liddicoat 2000:2)
Since we all learn and develop different identities trying to communicate with people of different identities is difficult and has its implications. We often try to communicate with others the way we would communicate with ourselves. In order to interact with other cultures and identities, we must learn those identities and learn to adapt to those other identities. In order to have successful intercultural communication, we must accept our differences but discover our similarities, as