Building Intercultural Competence through Virtual Team Collaboration across Global Classrooms

Autor/inn/en	Swartz, Stephanie; Barbosa, Belem; Crawford, Izzy
Titel	Building Intercultural Competence through Virtual Team Collaboration across Global Classrooms
Quelle	In: Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 83 (2020) 1, S.57-79 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Swartz, Stephanie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2329-4922
DOI	10.1177/2329490619878834
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cultural Awareness; Teamwork; Intercultural Communication; Cooperative Learning; Business Administration Education; Undergraduate Students; Computer Uses in Education; Instructional Effectiveness; United Kingdom (Scotland); Germany; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Kooperatives Lernen; Computernutzung; Unterrichtserfolg; Deutschland
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01