Birds of a feather end up flocking together when studying abroad. Can a university bridge the cultural differences that challenge friendships between Pacific Island students and New Zealand students?

Intercultural friendship formation is a key challenge for international students studying abroad. In an increasingly globalised world, where people regularly engage with others from different cultures, meaningful intercultural friendships are important. However, culture can pose a considerable challenge that hinders the formation of friendships between people of different cultures. This paper explores challenges and insights into developing intercultural friendships between international Pacific Island students studying in Aotearoa New Zealand and domestic New Zealand Palagi¹ students. Similar to other studies, the findings in this study highlight the key challenges connected to cultural differences. These findings are surprising as New Zealand Palagi students would have gone to primary and secondary schools with Pacific Island students and should have had some contact and interactions with them and be more accustomed to cultural differences. Unique to this study is that these international Pacific Island students recognised that universities are in a prime position to champion and promote systemic interventions to assist both international and domestic students to engage with each other in order to promote cultural understanding. Overcoming intercultural friendship development challenges involves creating meaningful intercultural spaces and campus ‘friendship’ events to increase intercultural interactions, raise domestic students’ cross-cultural awareness, and encourage reciprocal intercultural learning. Such activities are likely to enhance the overall well-being of all students and improve the internationalisation of universities with increasingly diverse student cohorts.     

Developing intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms – A study of EFL learners in Taiwan

Internationalisation has accentuated the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among language learners in higher education in the 21st century. As in the case of Taiwan, universities worldwide have begun to emphasise intercultural ‘literacy’ in language classrooms. Following Byram’ (1997) ICC model, this study adopts an intercultural approach to language classroom in order to investigate the effectiveness of explicit instruction in developing ICC among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners in Taiwan, and to discover how this development is related to the background factors of overseas experience and English proficiency. The accompanying research therefore has two purposes: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of explicit instruction on EFL learners’ development of ICC by employing both self-assessment and other assessment tools and (2) to investigate the relationship between the development of ICC and two background factors. The results show that (1) explicit instruction is effective in raising students’ development of ICC, especially the knowledge and skills dimensions, and (2) English proficiency and overseas experience are significantly related to better acquisition of ICC.     

解读粤港配对小学生网上研习:跨文化教育的视角

跨文化教育的核心思想是接受并欣赏文化差异,文章通过分析实施跨文化教育的具体要求以及在我国香港和广东的重要意义,重点探悉粤港配对小学生网上研习中对于跨文化教育的支持,从而总结跨文化教育实施的成功经验和不足之处,旨在为今后的跨文化教育实施给出建议。     

基础教育场域中的跨文化教育与管理——上海市三所接受外籍学生随班就读学校的个案研究

伴随着上海国际化大都市发展进程,越来越多的外籍中小学生选择随班就读于上海市中小学校。文中通过对国家、上海市及各区县、相关学校制订的招收外籍中小学生的政策、规定,申请入读程序和就读方式的整理,选取其中三所学校做个案研究,希望对处于摸索阶段的基础教育场域中的跨文化教育与管理有所启示。     

关于建构中小学教师跨文化培训体系的几点设想——基于上海市中小学接收外籍学生随班就读的管理现状

伴随着上海市基础教育国际化的悄然走近,中小学教师跨文化培训呼之欲出。本文在总结国内外教师跨文化培训研究现状的基础上,结合上海市中小学外籍学生跨文化管理实地调研的相关结果,对开展中小学教师跨文化培训提出了＂跨文化教师培训需分层部署,多方协调,注重借鉴,辐射推广＂、＂紧紧围绕‘培养文化移情能力,形成多元文化平等共存的自觉意识’和‘增强跨文化敏感度,提高跨文化交际能力’这两大基础开展培训＂以及＂跨文化教师培训课程可采用必修、选修和校本研究的形式＂等设想。     

Intercultural language teaching as a catalyst for teacher inquiry

This study investigated how two teachers of languages, facilitated by university researchers, developed their practices with regard to intercultural language teaching. Taking a qualitative case study approach, we collected data from classroom observations, interviews, debriefing conversations, and guided reflective pieces written by the teachers. Findings indicate that the opportunities for teachers to inquire into their own practices shifted these teachers' approaches to language teaching to accommodate a curriculum expectation to develop students' intercultural communicative competence in plurilingual contexts. The study offers valuable insights for teacher education into the ways teachers' inquiries can support teachers’ responses to curricular change.     

明末清初杜诗学者占籍考述及其群体特质探询

明末清初杜诗学者的占籍多集中在江南地区.这一时期杜诗学者之间的交往与互动紧密频繁,已经形成了一个互通声气、彼此对话的学术网络.在这个网络中处于顶端的学者同时也是该时期学术史上领袖群伦的人物,明末清初杜诗学正是以他们为中枢发射光芒.     

CALL教学中应当怎样注意网络交流中的礼仪问题

外语教学中非常注重学生跨文化交流能力的培养,计算机用于教学中以后,广大教师和学生经常地使用到电子邮件、键友、电子论坛、电子聊天、网络视频会议等等资源。因此,网络跨文化交流能力变得尤为重要。作为一名外语教师,特别是担负基础外语教学任务的外语教师,了解一定的网络交流礼仪是十分必要的。     

跨文化语言教学法在大学外语教学中的应用

文化可以分为两大类，即知识文化和交际文化。在外语教育中。这两类文化都应当涉及。适合中国大学英语教育的文化教学模式应谊是一个三雏的教学模式，即从知识、行为、交际三方面着手进行的综合的跨文化教学。本文将从建构主义现点出发，采用基于任务的跨文化语言教学汝这种新的教学模式来探讨“跨文化语言教学法”在大学外语教学中的应用，旨在提高学生的语言能力和跨文化交际能力。     

跨文化交际中的语用失误

随着跨文化交际的日益增多,跨文化交际中的语用失误越来越明显地显露出来,阻碍着交际地顺利进行,甚至导致文化冲突和交际失败。人们逐渐关注语用失误现象,语用失误是跨文化交际失败的主要原因。