professional life. I believe that creating an inclusive community is not only necessary to a functioning academic and professional environment, but is essential to any just mission. Overall, I have a sincere commitment to pluralism and I possess strong intercultural competencies, as shown though my personal background, academic commitments, and my prior volunteer and professional experiences. As a queer, first generation college graduate and an advocate of feminism, I believe that opening up…
Moeller and Osborn discuss and analyze the definition of Intercultural Communicative Competency (ICC), describes its importance, and discuss the role it has in the classroom. They begin by making a comparison between the tourist and the sojourner, and how the tourist is only viewing the world through one perspective, whereas the sojourner is making connections and strives to view the world through another perspective. This sojourner is interculturally competent as according to the most cited…
required education from the minute a child goes into school as early as preschool. There is debate on whether or not history should be a requirement for higher education, but through the analysis of the term history itself, one can come to realize it’s importance to societies, countries, and to humanity. A historian is someone who studies and analyzes history and past events. According to the Discussing History lecture, historians do three main things, study the past, interpret the past, and…
Flemish (Intercultural communication 2016). From this case, we can know that the discrepancy of different cultures seem to be everywhere in our life, attaching the areas such as business, advertisements and language. Many Loanwords which mean words adopted by the speakers of…
Dwyer, J. (2012). The business communication handbook (9th ed.), Communication in today 's workplace (pp. 2-26). Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson Australia. In this article, Dwyer (2012) focuses on the importance of communication by exampling a various types of communication at workplace in contemporary society. She introduces by presenting at the three forms of communication – verbal, nonverbal, and graphical communication, which is kind of behaviour and can influence by receiving/sending…
In the article, Lisa Davis is trying to show how the body position can have non- verbal communication. Though the position of the body, the people also communicated their cultural differences not only between the countries but also within the same country. The people from middle east are been to make physical intimacy where the Americans maintains a distance when a businessman of middle east steps forward the Americans steps backwards as far as possible. The difference of…
Communication is a fundamental element of humanity. To live without communication is almost impossible because of the various forms communication takes in our daily lives. Communication can be spoken verbally, written, expressed through our nonverbal actions, and through several other mediums. Through this year’s Intro to Communication course, I have learned the prominence that communication holds in my daily life, and some of my communication skills have improved throughout the course of the…
reality of the world economy. Growth and success in today’s global economy depend on being able to work internationally. In recent years many researchers in applied linguistics and professionals working for an international company have emphasised the importance…
At first, I will likely use nonverbal communication (Activity 9.2 - Nonverbal Communication) as my primary method of communication in Italy; however, by the end of my stay I hope to be able to speak at least some broken Italian. In order to help learn the language, I will try to interact with poor and middle class populations in Italy…
Communicative leadership in an intercultural context: A case study of Volvo Group. Introduction Today, multinational corporations are looking for managers that are capable of managing a diverse workgroup and that are aware of the unique transnational business climate (Chong, 2014). However, selected managers have a tendency to not complete the international expansion due to difficulty of adapting to the new country (Jones et al., 2014). This proves the need for research on intercultural and…