来华留学生跨文化适应策略与影响因素的相关研究——基于对在杭州日本留学生调查数据的分析

文化适应问题成为各国学者关注的焦点.本研究旨在探索中国文化环境下留学生的文化适应问题.通过选取杭州高校的50名日本留学生进行调查,探索他们采取的文化适应策略以及影响因素与策略的相关性.结果发现,整合策略应用最广,其次是分离和同化,边缘化是最不受欢迎的策略;不同策略在性别上的发展趋势略有不同.研究还发现,策略与个体认知方式与社会支持呈显著相关,而与跨文化接触无显著相关;男女群体中进行比较,相关性也有差异.     

跨文化交际与原版电影听说教学

通过教学途径学习的英语和英美日常生活中使用的英语有一些差别,这些差异会在跨文化交际中引起一些交际困难或失误。利用真实的视听材料如原版电影安排教学活动,可以让英语学习者熟悉和适应这些差异,弥补课堂教学的不足,丰富了学习情境。英语电影欣赏的内容、方法、教材编写等方面还有待于进一步探讨。     

韩语常用汉字词与汉语词文化的差异

韩语中有很多汉字,通常把与汉字有关的韩语词汇,包括汉源词、日文汉字词及借用汉字的韩语词等称为汉字词。本文旨在讨论词汇的附加义以及文化色彩的差异,对一些感情色彩等方面有异同的汉字词和汉语词进行了比较,为对外汉语教学及教材编写以及韩国人学习汉语都提供一定的参考。     

Teachers’ intercultural competence: a requirement or an option in a culturally diverse classroom?

This paper reports an exploratory study of the development of intercultural competence (IC) in elementary school teachers in Catalonia, Spain, utilising mixed-method quantitative and qualitative assessments. Through enrolment in a teacher training activity, the starting point was the administration of the Intercultural development inventory (IDI) to assess IC. Later, a discussion group was held to reflect on the results of the evaluation and to discuss educational practices in the face of cultural diversity. The quantitative IDI findings indicated that, regardless of the presence of foreign origin students at schools, participant teachers overestimate their level of intercultural sensitivity; there is a tendency to emphasise similarities in all cultures, which can minimise significant cultural differences. Nevertheless, the teachers became interested in cultural diversity after considering their potentially controversial and problematic educational context. Beyond admitted limitations of this study, inherent to small-scale methodological approach, our practice-based reflective proposal highlights obstacles and potentialities for managing cultural diversity in the classroom. These findings support the conclusion that IC is distributed throughout members of a community rather than being strictly an individual attribute. At the same time, the study thus demonstrates a mixed-method training design as an effective means of developing and assessing IC.     

Qualitative methods to assess intercultural competence in higher education research: A systematic review with practical implications

A number of methods have been recorded in the literature with regard to assessing intercultural competence, but extant reviews tend to focus on self-report instruments in which students' responses can be easily quantified. To address the gap, this paper provides an overview of qualitative methods used to assess students' intercultural competence in higher education research. Based on 34 studies, 25 qualitative assessment methods have been identified and captured in a newly-developed typology. Results show that (1) the majority of qualitative methods to assess intercultural competence were writing-based and ‘expressive’ in nature; (2) the assessment results were mainly analysed in a ‘thematic’ or ‘scalar’ manner; and (3) very little assessment took place among STEM majors. These results are further discussed and problematized to provide implications for developing and assessing intercultural competence in higher education research and curriculum.