Intercultural communication competence: Continuing challenges and critical directions

Building an Inclusive Climate for Intercultural Dialogue: A Participant‐Generated Framework

“…This theme includes factors 15 (“Awareness of ways I exclude”), 5 (“Recognizing my own privilege”), and 8 (“Recognizing that others may not share my assumptions”). This theme acknowledges the importance of power relations and individual positionality in intercultural interaction, concepts that have been given greater emphasis in recent intercultural competence research (Collier, ; Martin, ; Yep, ). That is, history, politics, economic systems, and ideologies “all affect how cultural group members are positioned and the extent to which individuals will be viewed as competent” (Collier, , p. 10).…”

“…This theme acknowledges the importance of power relations and individual positionality in intercultural interaction, concepts that have been given greater emphasis in recent intercultural competence research (Collier, ; Martin, ; Yep, ). That is, history, politics, economic systems, and ideologies “all affect how cultural group members are positioned and the extent to which individuals will be viewed as competent” (Collier, , p. 10). Wang and Kulich () address the notion of power in their empirical study and identify cultural humility as an important dimension of intercultural communication competence, helping us overcoming cultural superiority, power, privilege, and pride.…”

“…More recently, Chen () challenges scholars to “go one step further to examine the relationships between or among dimensions or components in the compositional model that the hierarchical or determinative order of the dimensions or components toward ICC competence can be specified” (p. 24). Others, like Collier (), note the lack of attention to the process through which intercultural competence is constructed; and also relationships among individual and group members “as they occur in spaces of institutional influences such as……universities” (p. 10). Our study responds to this call for bringing a process and contextualized focus to intercultural competence by investigating the relative influence of a specific set of competencies, focusing on the interrelationships among these competencies, and examining the flow of the dialogue process.…”

“…More recently, Chen (2014) challenges scholars to "go one step further to examine the relationships between or among dimensions or components in the compositional model that the hierarchical or determinative order of the dimensions or components toward ICC competence can be specified" (p. 24). Others, like Collier (2015), note the lack of attention to the process through which intercultural competence is constructed; and also relationships among individual and group members "as they occur in spaces of institutional influences such as. .…”

Exploring Intercultural Communication in Expats’ Social Media Groups

“…al, 2010) to individual competences (Spitzberg, 2000;Deardorff, 2006;Collier, 2015). Rooted back to mid-twentieth century, the field has been facing challenges and opportunities of globalization.…”