What is Intercultural Competence

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It refers to the ability to demonstrate targeted knowledge, skills and attitudes that lead to effective and appropriate communication with people of other cultures. Learn more in: Promoting Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication With Flipgrid: Design, Implementation, and Outcomes

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The “inter” prefix added to “cultural competence” indicates a two-way exchange of development and the give and take nature of individuals from two different cultures in interaction. Learn more in: 3D Virtual Learning Environment for Acquisition of Cultural Competence: Experiences of Instructional Designers

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The ability to communicate effectively and correctly in intercultural situations; the ability to adapt to different cultural contexts. Learn more in: Literacies of the Body: Opening the Doors of the Mind Through Embodied Learning and Imaginative Processes

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This term encompasses the acquisition of intercultural understanding and the ability to act in linguistically and culturally complex situations. To that end, in relation to the CEF, a common framework of theory and practice not only for linguistic but also for cultural learning is being developed in 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Learn more in: The Use of Communities in a Virtual Learning Environment

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The ability to communicate and interact effectively and appropriately with people from different cultures. Learn more in: Case Study of a Sustained Educator Partnership between the U.S. and Norway

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The knowledge, skills, and dispositional attributes necessary to effectively and appropriately communicate with individuals from other cultures. Learn more in: Teacher Candidates in International Contexts: Examining the Impact on Beliefs about Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners

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The term refers to how people from diverse backgrounds and cultures communicate and interact with others and become competent in acquiring a foreign language. Learn more in: A Model for Mobile Social Media Integration in Constructivist ESL Classrooms

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The ability to effectively and appropriately communicate with people having different cultural background and/or language repertoire. Learn more in: Translanguaging Practices in Early Childhood Classrooms From an Intercultural Perspective

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The ability to communicate in an effective and appropriate manner in intercultural contexts based on a person’s intercultural knowledge, skills, and ability. Learn more in: Cultural Intelligence and Experiential Learning Powering Faculty Intercultural Leadership Development

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Taylor (1994) indicated that intercultural competence is “an adaptive capacity based on an inclusive and integrative world view which allows participants to effectively accommodate the demands of living in a host culture” (p. 154). Learn more in: Developing Global Leaders: Utilizing the Intercultural Effectiveness Competencies Model

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The ability to develop targeted knowledge, skills and attitudes that lead to visible behavior and communication that are both effective and appropriate in intercultural interactions. Learn more in: Fostering Language Acquisition and Intercultural Competence Through Authentic Literary Texts: The Use of Short Stories in ELT

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Ability to develop targeted knowledge, skills and attitudes that lead to visible behavior and communication that are both effective and appropriate in intercultural interactions. Learn more in: Students' Perceptions Toward an International Telecollaboration Project Through an Engineering-Themed Online Simulation in a Language-Learning Setting

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It, as a concept, has been explored and studied under different terms, such as cross-cultural effectiveness, cross-cultural adjustment, cross-cultural competence, intercultural effectiveness, intercultural competence, and intercultural communication competence. In the literature, the definition was theoretically and empirically inconsistent. Learn more in: Cross-Cultural Learning and Intercultural Competence

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A set of attitudes, knowledge and skills that enable effective and appropriate communication in intercultural encounters. Learn more in: A New Border Pedagogy: Rethinking Outbound Mobility Programs in the Asian Century

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A set of cognitive, affective, and behavioural skills and characteristics that supports effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts. Learn more in: Students' Perceived Benefits of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs: A Case Study of Hong Kong Higher Education

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Intercultural competence refers to how individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures communicate and interact with others and become competent in acquiring a foreign language. Learn more in: Intercultural Competence for Teachers of Young ELLs

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Intercultural competence development is defined as a lifelong process involving individual opportunities for ongoing reflection and assessment of cultural competence. Intercultural competence does develop consciously (Hillier & Wozniak, 2009 AU46: The in-text citation "Hillier & Wozniak, 2009" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Critical thinking plays an integral role in intercultural learning. Intercultural competence development, ultimately, involves acquiring attitudes, knowledge, skills and habits of mind for thinking and conducting oneself appropriately in different intercultural settings ( Deardorff, 2011 ). Learn more in: Cultural Self-Study as a Tool for Critical Reflection and Learning: Integral Analysis and Implications for Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs

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Educators’ ability to communicate and interact effectively, appropriately, and respectfully with people of all cultures and to change inequitable educational practices. Learn more in: Service-Learning Field Experiences to Build Intercultural Competence: Teaching and Learning on the U.S.-México Border

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A range of skills and abilities that a person needs to acquire to communicate effectively with representatives of other cultures. Learn more in: A Cognitive Style-Inclusive Approach as a Means of Learner-Centered EFL Teaching Mode Implementation

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Comprises three major segments: (1) the ability to establish adequate communication and interaction with people of other cultures; (2) the ability to acquire intercultural attitudes, knowledge and skills i.e., a better understanding and respect for cultural diversity; and (3) the ability to implement effective behavior in other cultures i.e., intercultural sensitivity. Thus, the fundamental elements of intercultural competence are intercultural attitudes, knowledge and skills of interpretation, discovery and interaction, critical cultural awareness and political culture. Learn more in: Promotion of Internationalization of Teacher Education: A Case Study from Croatia

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A key competence of the 21 st century needed to interact with people from different cultural backgrounds. Learn more in: Fostering Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: Designing Intercultural Group Work for the Classroom

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It is the ability to interact effectively with people from cultures that we recognize as being different from our own (Guilherme, 2004, p. 297). Learn more in: The PETaL Approach to Bilingual and Intercultural Education in Early Childhood Education

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The ability to successfully communicate with members of another culture. Learn more in: Virtual Learning Environments for Culture and Intercultural Competence