The study presented here aims to enhance our understanding of intercultural learning by focusing on the link between the development of intercultural sensitivity and the first of Engle and Engle’s key study abroad components, program duration.
Intercultural communication classes for TESOL students give them a solid foundation for their work with their own ESOL students. This article presents the cross-cultural project that TESOL students have to complete in a required intercultural communication class at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the case study that was used to assess the project. The project requires that students learn from and share with someone from a different culture while they are exploring their cultural selves and the workings of culture in themselves and others. Specifically, there are four learning outcomes: Students are expected to:(1) reflect on and deepen their understanding of themselves and others as cultural beings, (2) put newly acquired intercultural knowledge into practice, (3) develop and enhance their intercultural competence, and (4) develop confidence in their ability to talk to people from different cultures. The study found that all four expected learning outcomes were met.
This entry makes a distinction between the concepts of
interculturalidad
(
interculturality
) and
intercultural communication
in Latin America. Interculturalidad is the product of the social, economic, political, and cultural challenges that the indigenous communities have encountered since the Europeans arrived to the Americas. Intercultural communication is a term and approach borrowed from the discipline that originated in the United States. In this entry are examples of institutions and academic disciplines offering undergraduate and graduate education, academic professional organizations, publications in which research articles are published, and major research themes and topics in interculturality and intercultural communication in Latin America. The entry includes specific names of authors and publication titles.
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