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Essay / Intercultural Communication Competence in Language...
This article presents a course guide in which students participate in community service projects for sixteen weeks to interact and communicate with people from other cultures . The course has various components that include student participation both in the classroom and at the community service site, exams to test student growth in intercultural communication, and self-reflection materials. The expected outcomes of this course, which go hand in hand with the testimonials given in articles from students who have completed the course, include increased cultural awareness and intercultural communication skills. This article gives a more practical side of the ICC compared to other studies; one where an entire course is dedicated to teaching the subject to students. This author aims to integrate intercultural communication competence into language learning courses. The research article highlights the importance of teaching culture in this type of course, as they complement each other and where understanding a culture will help students understand the language better and vice versa. The majority of the article reviews the implementation of cultural learning through the use of technology. It also suggests possible ways to test intercultural learning. This article gives a good overview of the importance of teaching ICC and its relationship with language. This study examined the growth of ICC and acculturation, the degree of adaptation to a different culture, among international students attending university in China. This study was conducted by surveying 302 international students attending Central China Normal University. The main findings include that Asian international students were less motivated to adapt to middle of paper ......mcompetence in engineering courses in colleges. This research article highlights the challenges Japanese people face in practicing and improving their skills. ICC and how a class teaching ICC would help Japanese citizens become more global. The author mentions that one of the current attempts to achieve this goal is a learning program already in place in Japan that awards its students with international certificates in communication management at the end of the course. The author then moves on to offer such a course for assimilation in universities, the benefits of having such a course and the importance of having such a qualification. This study provides a different setting than other studies, a country where intercultural communication skills are difficult to perfect, and also supports the topic of the article by suggesting that it be taught in university classrooms..