Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us

Alexander, Bryant Keith; Arasaratnam, Lily A.; Avant-Mier, Roberto; Durham, Aisha; Flores, Lisa A.; Leeds‐Hurwitz, Wendy; Mendoza, S. Lily; Oetzel, John; Osland, Joyce S.; Tsuda, Yuichi; Yin, Jie; Halualani, Rona Tamiko

doi:10.1080/17513057.2014.869524

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“…2014). Culture in intercultural communication has been overlapping with context, history, performance, and power (Alexander, et al, 2014). Similarly, multicultural context does not lead to greater intercultural communication (Garcia-Jimenez, Rodrigo-Alsina & Pineda, 2017).…”

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Purpose: Teachers have an important role to help their students acquire and improve their life skills. Therefore, it is essential to ask what science teachers think about the concept of life skills and how they perceive this concept. The aim of this study was to examine how science teachers perceive life skills and what they think about life skills as part of the learning process in Turkish Science Course Curriculum.Research Methods: This research was conducted as a case-study. 26 science teachers, who worked in the centre of Burdur province, participated in the study. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews. Findings: This study revealed that science teachers believed that life skills are necessary for every individual but when it was assessed according to Turkish Science Course Curriculum, awareness of relating life skills to daily life was significantly low.

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“…Specifically, an intercultural context involves "a symbolic representation of an instance when communication between individuals is affected by cultural differences in the way that would not have been noteworthy in the absence of those differences" (Arasaratnam, 2011, p. vii). In this study, cultural location utilizes a conceptualization involving an individual's country of origin/upbringing (Alexander et al, 2014). The ability to effectively communicate and behave in a way consistent with the norms and values of one's present environment identifies the person as culturally competent (Deardorff, 2006;Wiseman, 2002).…”

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“…The tenets of the theory center on the adaptation process of immigrants or foreigners in a new culture to improve competence (Zimmermann, 1995). Competence does not attempt to describe perfect or optimal behavior, rather, competence involves achieving effective and capable action and communication (Alexander et al, 2014).…”

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Experiences of International Teaching Assistants in the US Classroom

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Most research focusing on the challenges that international teaching assistants (ITAs) encounter in U.S. classrooms employs a linguistic perspective. The present study furthers that research by examining other challenges unique to ITAs, through the lens of an intercultural competence framework. Through individual interviews with 15 ITAs, the study highlights the challenges related to competencies in knowledge and skills faced by ITAs in U.S. classrooms. Findings reveal that knowledge about the U.S. education system, expectations of the classroom culture, and assumptions about student–instructor relationships pose the greatest difficulties. Additionally, the ability of an ITA to demonstrate communication skills remains a significant challenge, including the negative perception of speaking with a foreign accent and selecting effective word choices to accurately represent content. The study findings present practical implications for training ITAs for their pedagogical duties at U.S. colleges.

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“…In the last decades, "interculture" has become a hit word which has gone through several definitions and interpretations. A multivoiced analysis which illustrates the discussion among different scholars can be found in Alexander et al (2014), where each participant offers her/his own interpretation of the word; other important references can be found at: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org. Addressing the educational field, I mainly refer to Gobbo (1992Gobbo ( , 2008Gobbo ( , 2011 and Abdallah-Pretceille (2005 as the questioning of one's identity in relation to others, so that the mutual practice of being able to meet and interact with other cultures becomes the exercise of problematizing one's own(s) as well.…”

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By the time children enter school, they know how to spell their names and are accustomed to their family's and community's pronunciation of their names; those names are generally the first aspect of their identity we educators recognize when they enter our classrooms. As the nation's classrooms become more diverse, there is an urgent need for educators at all levels to enact multicultural and cultur

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Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us

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