Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region

This reflection essay describes the Central States Region as an area rich in intercultural communication. González describes Mexican American migrant farmworker organizing as an intercultural activity since the union activists attempted to influence both Mexican heritage and European heritage audiences. González also describes the many interculturalists working in the Midwest who influenced his early research.     

外语教学中加强大学生的跨文化非语言交际能力

跨文化交际是一门涉及多重因素的综合艺术。非语言交际作为交际的一项重要内容,是一种语义非常丰富的交际手段和重要媒介,它贯穿于整个交际过程之中。相比较语言交际而言,它更能反映一个人的真实态度、心理活动和价值观念,直接关系到交际成功与否。文章分析了大学生在跨文化交际中增强非语言交际的重要意义,并就跨文化非语言交际在外语教学中的内容和训练途径进行了初步探讨。     

平面二次包络环面蜗杆副的参数化建立

运用空间啮合原理和微分几何理论,对平面二次包络环面蜗杆副的蜗杆齿面方程进行推导修正,并在此基础上结合坐标与坐标系变换得到蜗杆齿面接触线的离散模型。同时列出了更为详细的模型绘制流程,并在vc 与OpenGL软件环境中模拟出了齿面离散模型。     

退休体育教师传媒接触状况的调查与分析

在人口老龄化背景下,对退休体育教师接触电视、广播、报纸、杂志及网络媒介的行为、动机、偏好及感受等进行的调查分析显示,传媒接触是大多数退休体育教师闲暇生活的主导活动,是他们与社会互动的主要中介;退休体育教师对不同媒介的接触程度有很大差异;性别、年龄、经济状况及健康状况等因素对退休体育教师传媒接触有不同程度的影响;退休体育教师传媒接触的动机、偏好及感受具有值得关注的特点。改善传媒接触是应对人口老龄化问题的重要途径。     

Intercultural Competence Teaching

It is widely realized that cultural competence is playing an increasingly important role in language teaching because of the close associations between culture and language. To enhance the efficiency o...     

Cultivating critical global citizens through secondary EFL education: a case study of mainland China

This paper examines the enactment of critical literacy pedagogy in secondary English language teaching in the face of globalisation. This qualitative case study signals that global citizenship education (GCE) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching can converge through offering equitable and globally contextualised learning opportunities. The overarching themes presented here challenge the dominance of instrumentalist orientations of EFL education in mainland China today while mobilising pedagogical choices that affirm students' local and lived experiences in relation to international socio-political issues. Findings provide EFL educators nuanced insights into how critical global literacies are extended through critical understandings of literacies, interconnections from a personal to a global level, and opportunities for social actions on multicultural issues, thus fostering globally competent and bilingual learners who critically engage with the contested terrain of an increasingly globalised world.     

Towards a Model of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Iranian EFL Context: Testing the Role of International Posture,Ideal L2 Self,L2 Self-Confidence,and Metacognitive Strategies

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to present a model of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) by incorporating international posture, motivational disposition (ideal L2 self), second language (L2) self-confidence, and metacognitive learning strategies. To this end, 150 Iranian L2 learners, selected through convenience sampling procedure, took part in the research. The findings of structural equation modelling revealed that the proposed model showed adequate fit to the data, implying that the model is appropriate in Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Also, the results indicated that learners with a high level of international posture are more likely to bridge the gap between their present and ideal selves. This was, additionally, argued that internationally oriented and ideally motivated learners become confident of their abilities to get engaged in interaction with L2 target communities. Furthermore, metacognitive learning strategies were found to be directly associated with ICC, implicating that the learners who continuously reflect on their learning and evaluate their performances are more prone to have a higher level of ICC. Finally, suggestions were offered for language teachers and policy-makers to inspire their learners to be more competent in communication with people of other cultures and languages.     

中国男篮队员身体接触状态下技术运用质量分析

强身体对抗已成为现代篮球比赛的必然现象,是完成比赛的基础和支撑点,因此身体接触状态下技术运用质量也就成为技、战术发挥的有力保证。运用录像观察法、统计分析法对第15届世界男篮锦标赛中国队队员在身体接触状态下的主要技术运用质量进行分析,结果表明我国运动员的对抗技术运用同比赛对手存在着全方位的差距,反映出我国运动员在对抗意识、综合控制能力以及身体对抗时力量、速度素质等方面存在的缺陷。     

《说文解字》头部名称形声字本义与源义关系举隅

文章选取《说文》中6个表示头部名称的形声字,从该字的源义素是声符字的本义和源义、引申义和假借义三个方面,通过声符系联,得出各个字本义与源义之间的关系,力图为科学汉语字源学的建立提供经过系统整理的文献材料和论证阐释的途径。     

Initial Communication with and Attitudes toward International Students: Testing the Mediating Effects of Friendship Formation Variables

From the theoretical perspectives of intergroup contact, predicted outcome value (POV), and similarity-attraction, this study examined U.S. host nationals’ (N = 342) communicative behaviours in a recent initial encounter with an international student and attitudes toward the student’s cultural group as a whole. Testing of two models indicated the significant sequential mediator effects of perceived similarity-social attraction and POV-social attraction between communication variables (e.g. amount of communication exchange in both models, self-disclosure in model 1, and information seeking in model 2), and intergroup attitudes (e.g. behavioural attitudes). Findings in general demonstrated that contact effects in the intercultural context varied according to specific measures of communication, the mediating mechanisms, and intergroup attitudes.