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ERIC Number: EJ1242772
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2329-4922
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Building Intercultural Competence through Virtual Team Collaboration across Global Classrooms
Swartz, Stephanie; Barbosa, Belem; Crawford, Izzy
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, v83 n1 p57-79 Mar 2020
By means of a cross-cultural virtual teams project involving classrooms in Scotland, Germany, and Portugal, students were exposed to the challenges of collaborating internationally with the intention of increasing their intercultural competency. Intercultural sensitivity and intercultural communication competency were measured using responses to surveys before and after the 6-week project. Students reported, among other aspects, a heightened awareness of the difficulties of intercultural communication. Despite a general appreciation of the project and its outcomes, negative results, such as an increased dislike of intercultural interaction, emerged. Contradictory results warrant further investigation with data from future collaborations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Scotland); Germany; Portugal
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