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Yuan, Mei; Dervin, Fred; Liang, Yuyin; Layne, Heidi – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
Meeting others abroad and/or online is considered important in the broad field of intercultural communication education (amongst others: international education, minority and migrant education, but also teacher education, language education) to test out one's learning about interculturality. For several weeks, a group of university students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Computer Mediated Communication, College Students
Jia, Xu; Dervin, Fred – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
Like many institutions around the world, Chinese universities have established systems of 'local student buddies' to ensure international students' smooth transition to university life in China. This paper examines this underexplored form of internationalization-at-home by focusing on the experiences of Chinese buddies, who host international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Schools, Transitional Programs, Foreign Students
Minoia, Marilena – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The globalised world in which we live demands multilingual and cross-culturally aware professionals. The role of intercultural awareness is now, more than ever, crucial in the language classroom in order to allow students to become competent and independent adults who will be highly employable beyond graduation. The recently published Companion…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, College Students
Johnson, Esko; Hynynen, Nina – Intercultural Education, 2018
This research paper deals with intercultural knowledge and knowing as displayed in higher education student portfolios. The portfolios were written by student pairs taking a global education course at Centria University of Applied Sciences, Finland, during seven academic years. Conceptual metaphor theory and metaphor analysis were utilised to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Students
Fernández-Agüero, María; Chancay-Cedeño, Carlos – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to identify how Ecuadorian university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) tackle intercultural teaching practice in their classrooms. To this end, we studied the reported intercultural practices of 68 EFL university teachers from Ecuadorian Region 4. Quantitative data drawn from a questionnaire were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty
Jin, Tinghe – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
This article draws on interview data to report how students of Mandarin in UK universities were exposed to and responded to 'Chinese culture' during their studies. The experiences that the students shared and the ways they responded demonstrated their understanding of cultural complexity, incorporating a fluid and dynamic view of culture as…
Descriptors: College Students, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Asian Culture
Song, Yang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Based on ethnographic data, the present study examines how being critical has been understood, valued and practiced among students enrolled in international English-as-the-medium-of-instruction (EMI) Master's porgrammes in a top-rated comprehensive university in China. Drawing on the Foucauldian ethico-political axes of self-formation, this…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
McIntosh, Megan; Lakey, Elizabeth – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This analysis employs the concept of gratitude to trace key 'moments' in students' global service learning placements. We problematise the uncritical promotion of interculturality as an outcome of such placements. We analyse common narratives of gratitude that emerge from students before, during and after international placements in the Global…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Power Structure, Social Influences
Jun Peng; Fred Dervin – Intercultural Communication Education, 2023
Although virtual exchange has been widely discussed during the (post-)pandemic era, how students do reflexivity in this context has yet to be fully explored. This study invites students from Chinese and Finnish universities to think aloud and reflect on their virtual exchanges by presenting them with video clips of their online intercultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, International Educational Exchange
De Martino, Sandro – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This case study describes the "Bologna-München" Tandem, a cross-border collaboration which began in 2011. The aim of the collaboration is to give students studying Italian at the Ludwig- Maximilians-University in Munich and students studying German at the University of Bologna the opportunity to experience interculturality through…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, German, Universities, Second Language Learning
Sá, Maria José; Serpa, Sandro – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
The growing digitalization that is taking place in most current societies, shaping a super-smart society -- such as, for example, the aimed Society 5.0 -- raises profound implications in the learning that the higher education context should foster, and which is summarized in the following question: what kind of skills should be taught and how?…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Soft Skills, School Role, Sustainability
Holmes, Prue; Bavieri, Luisa; Ganassin, Sara; Murphy, Jonathon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study investigated how a "while abroad" (IEREST) intercultural experiential learning programme (i) encouraged mobile student sojourners to explore the concept of "interculturality"; (ii) promoted their intercultural engagement/communication during their stay abroad; and (iii) invited them to reflect on their own…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Learning Experience, Student Mobility, Questionnaires
Harsch, Claudia; Poehner, Matthew E. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Educational institutions are acknowledging the requirements of a globalized world on students' mobility, interculturality, and language skills by offering study-abroad programmes. These need to be accompanied by procedures to assess student needs prior to and during their time abroad as well as upon their return. In the exploratory study reported…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Metacognition, Foreign Students
Mallman, Mark; Harvey, Andrew; Szalkowicz, Giovanna; Moran, Anthony – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Research on intercultural interactions in higher education focuses on measuring student attitudes and degrees of cosmopolitanism, but there is little theoretically and empirically informed effort to understand 1) the nature of these campus interactions as ordinary, embodied, and routine, and 2) the cultural and social impact of campus…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Interaction, Sense of Community, College Students
Parks, Elinor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
The paper reports on the findings of a PhD study exploring the implications of the separation between language and content in Modern Languages for students' development of intercultural competence and criticality across four universities -- two in the US and two in the UK. In particular, it exposes the diverse views students developed on the…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Degrees