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Building Intercultural Competence Through Virtual Team Collaboration Across Global Classrooms

Year: 2019

Type: article

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.

Source: Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

DOI: 10.1177/2329490619878834

Authors: Stephanie Swartz, Belem Barbosa, Izzy Crawford

Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Mainz, University of Aveiro, Robert Gordon University

Language: English

Topic: Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2968911397

FWCI: 13.25

Cites: 24

Cited by: 83

Related to: 10