Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education

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García-Pérez, Grisel María, Rojas-Primus, Constanza
IGI Global, Nov 17, 2016 - Education - 361 pages

Any educational environment involves the interaction of diverse groups and individuals. To foster productive and effective communication, it becomes imperative to understand people’s different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as their value systems.

Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the presence of cultural diversity in educational contexts and how to promote effective dialogues in these environments. Highlighting extensive coverage on topics relating to intercultural learning, such as social identity, gender diversity, and formative feedback, this book is ideally designed for academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals, and practitioners seeking pedagogical research on communication between diverse cultural groups.

 

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Contents

The Road to Intercultural Development and Internationalization
1
Turning Good Intentions into Good Teaching
20
Internationalization and Intercultural Learning
54
Intercultural Teaching Competence in the Disciplines
89
Integrating Intercultural Competencies into the Professional Skills Curriculum
119
Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography
140
Using the Medicine Wheel for Curriculum Design in Intercultural Communication
168
Gender Divides in Higher Education
200
The Philosophers Teahouse
229
Target Language Target Culture
257
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages the Intercultural Development Index and Intercultural Communication Competence
281
Compilation of References
307
About The Contributors
353
Index
357
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About the author (2016)

Dr. Grisel García-Pérez has been teaching languages for 41 years and still says she genuinely enjoys what she does. She considers teaching to be a privileged position that demands humility, respect, and love. Her primary research interest is in the area of second/foreign language teaching and learning. Within this area, she has carried out investigations on e-learning, speech analysis, text analysis, and most recently on intercultural communication and intercultural awareness. At present she is investigating how intercultural development, sensitivity, competence, and communication are interconnected with language learning.

Dr. Constanza Rojas-Primus teaches Spanish and Intercultural Studies in the department of Language and Cultures at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, BC, Canada. She holds a Master in Sociolinguists and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies. She is also a Certified Interculturalist and an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator. She has published many academic articles and is the author of Lengua ritual y sincretismo: dinámicas de hibridez en el discurso mágico-religioso Palo Monte (2009). Her current research focuses on the integration of intercultural communicative competence into her Spanish classroom to better understand the role language education may play in developing students’ global competences at her university. [Editor]

Bibliographic information

TitlePromoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education
Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (2327-6983)
EditorsGarcía-Pérez, Grisel María, Rojas-Primus, Constanza
PublisherIGI Global, 2016
ISBN1522517340, 9781522517344
Length361 pages
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Education / Adult & Continuing Education
Education / Higher
Education / Multicultural Education
  
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