Tag: intercultural education

{newsletter} TESOL international association march 2021 issue

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Link ICIS newsletter – March 2021 In this issue:  LEADERSHIP UPDATES •  LETTER FROM CO-CHAIR •  LETTER FROM THE CO-EDITORS ARTICLES •  SETTING THE STAGE FOR INTERCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT VIA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT •  ENGAGING LANGUAGE LEARNERS THROUGH GAMIFICATION •  PROMOTING ANTI-RACIST PRACTICES THROUGH INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATION SURVEY •  INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY •  MEET THE ICIS LEADERSHIP FOR 2021-22 •  INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTEREST […]

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{new book} Intercultural Competence Past, Present and Future Respecting the Past, Problems in the Present and Forging the Future

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Intercultural Competence Past, Present and Future Respecting the Past, Problems in the Present and Forging the Future Explores the benefits of teaching reflection upon one’s own culture to develop intercultural competence Sheds light on teacher’s feedback and students’ cultural differences and expectations Shows the closeness between language learning motivation and interculturality Editors: López-Jiménez, María Dolores, Sánchez-Torres, Jorge (Eds.) About this book: This […]

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{Interesting meeting} Inspiring Intercultural learning: ESL & EFL students’ experiences

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Facebook group TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section shared a new post: Please join the meeting to hear ESL and EFL students describe impacting intercultural learning experiences. Students from Italy, Spain, Cambodia, and Taiwan discuss academic and personal experiences that affected their intercultural growth. Meeting detail:

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{job} Intercultural job opportunity from Durham University

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Job opportunity Please find below a job opportunity – assistant professor in international  and comparative education – in the School of Education at Durham university. Researchers/teachers in the field of languages and intercultural communication are encouraged to apply. Closing date: 03-Feb-2021, 11:59:00 PM Link:  https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000009&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon  

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{Call for Proposal} ICC 2022 CALL FOR PROPOSALS OPENING JANUARY 2021

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CERCLL-Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy will start receiving proposal submissions for the 8th International Intercultural Competence Conference: Decentering Mobility in Intercultural Education: Engagement, Equity, and Access.  Call for proposals will open in January 2021. Guidelines coming up soon! The 2022 ICC conference will take place on January 27-30 and will focus on the ways in which intercultural communication and the […]

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New book – Interculturality in Education: A Theoretical and Methodological Toolbox

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This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that it is now time to move beyond certain assumptions towards a richer and more realistic understanding of the ‘intercultural’. Many concepts such as culture, identity and intercultural competence are discussed and revised. Myths about interculturality are also unpacked and dispelled. Written by […]

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IALIC Call for papers: BRIDGING ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN EVERYDAY LIVES: NEW ROLES FOR CHANGING SCENARIOS, November 2016, Barcelona, Spain

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International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication, 2016 Annual Conference, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain November 25-27th, 2016 Invited Speakers: Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham, UK David Block, ICREA/University of Lleida, Spain Angela Creese, University of Birmingham, UK Sean Golden, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, Scotland In this age of communication revolution and intense globalization there is […]

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Call for papers – Cutting Edges Research Conference: Crossing boundaries, Canterbury, June 206

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A free one-day conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education Friday, 10th June, Canterbury Christ Church University, School of Language Studies & Applied Linguistics We invite papers which deal with crossing or critiquing established boundaries regarding English in the world – standards, circles, ownership, definition, usage So-called ‘native speakers’ and ‘non-native speakers’ […]

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Call for papers: INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND GLOBALISATION: CURRENT PRACTICE AND TRENDS, Budapest, June 2016

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The Language Department of the Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism at Budapest Business School (BBS) is organizing an international specialist seminar in Budapest on 16-17th June 2016 titled INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND GLOBALISATION: CURRENT PRACTICE AND TRENDS. As a multiplier event of the ICCAGE project (Intercultural Communicative Competence – A Competitive Advantage for Global Employability), this event will bring […]

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New book on Online Intercultural exchange

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This is a new book edited by Robert O’Dowd and Tim Lewis, and includes contributions by several Cultnet people. (For more information on Cutlet, see reflections by Khwan and Min) The publishers say: This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges […]

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Presenting and Teaching in Universidad de Cordoba (Khwan and Fitri …. and Richard)

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Hi All Khwan and I were invited to contribute in a round table/ symposium in the University of Cordoba, in the warm Cordoba, Spain (June 3rd). The Symposium ‘Intercultural Education and Bilingual Education in the 21st Century’ is a part of ‘The International Conference of Education and Development Cooperation’ (link below): http://www.uco.es/educacionycooperacion/index.php?sec=home&lang=en Khwan’s paper was titled: The potential role of English language […]

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Call for chapters: Interculturality in Chinese language Education

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Call for Chapters   Interculturality in Chinese Language Education   Eds. Tinghe Jin (IOE, London, UK) & Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland)     Deadline for abstracts: 1st May 2015   Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Eds. Dervin/Du)         “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort […]

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