Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication,which is also used in a different sense,though) is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate,in similar and different ways among themselves,and how they endeavour to communicate across cultures.
Cross-cultural communication endeavours to bring together such relatively unrelated areas as cultural anthropology and established areas of communication.Its core is to establish and understand how people from different cultures communicate with each other.Its charge is to also produce some guidelines with which people from different cultures can better communicate with each other.
Cross-cultural communication,as in many scholarly fields,is a combination of many other fields.These fields include anthropology,cultural studies,psychology and communication.The field has also moved both toward the treatment of interethnic relations,and toward the study of communication strategies used by co-cultural populations,i.e.,communication strategies used to deal with majority or mainstream populations.
As the application of cross-cultural communication theory to foreign language education is increasingly appreciated around the world,cross-cultural communication classes can be found within foreign language departments of some universities,while other schools are placing cross-cultural communication programs in their departments of education.
Above all,universities need to make sure that they are open and responsive to changes in the outside environment.In order for internationalization to be fully effective,the university (including all staff,students,curriculum,and activities) needs to be current with cultural changes,and willing to adapt to these changes.[8] As stated by Ellingboe,internationalization “is an ongoing,future-oriented,multidimensional,interdisciplinary,leadership-driven vision that involves many stakeholders working to change the internal dynamics of an institution to respond and adapt appropriately to an increasingly diverse,globally focused,ever-changing external environment".[9] New distance learning technologies,such as interactive teleconferencing,enable students located thousands of miles apart to communicate and interact in a virtual classroom Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication,which is also used in a different sense,though) is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate,in similar and different ways among themselves,and how they endeavour to communicate across cultures.
Cross-cultural communication endeavours to bring together such relatively unrelated areas as cultural anthropology and established areas of communication.Its core is to establish and understand how people from different cultures communicate with each other.Its charge is to also produce some guidelines with which people from different cultures can better communicate with each other.
Cross-cultural communication,as in many scholarly fields,is a combination of many other fields.These fields include anthropology,cultural studies,psychology and communication.The field has also moved both toward the treatment of interethnic relations,and toward the study of communication strategies used by co-cultural populations,i.e.,communication strategies used to deal with majority or mainstream populations.
As the application of cross-cultural communication theory to foreign language education is increasingly appreciated around the world,cross-cultural communication classes can be found within foreign language departments of some universities,while other schools are placing cross-cultural communication programs in their departments of education.
Above all,universities need to make sure that they are open and responsive to changes in the outside environment.In order for internationalization to be fully effective,the university (including all staff,students,curriculum,and activities) needs to be current with cultural changes,and willing to adapt to these changes.[8] As stated by Ellingboe,internationalization “is an ongoing,future-oriented,multidimensional,interdisciplinary,leadership-driven vision that involves many stakeholders working to change the internal dynamics of an institution to respond and adapt appropriately to an increasingly diverse,globally focused,ever-changing external environment".[9] New distance learning technologies,such as interactive teleconferencing,enable students located thousands of miles apart to communicate and interact in a virtual classroom