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A Black Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School
(2008-02-05)This project is a study of the speech of African American students within the High School classroom and their verbal communication before, during, and after class. The overall goal is to observe and study their varying ... -
Addressing empathy in intercultural virtual exchange: a preliminary framework
(Research-Publishing.net, 2020)Empathy is widely perceived and understood as an unquestioned component of Intercultural Competence (IC). The authors see the ability to empathise with others and to see their point of view as an important condition for ... -
THE BALTIC VERBAL ROOTS* lV̄̆g-,* lV̄̆ź
The present paper attempts to shed additional light on a number of etymologies proposed for various Baltic (and related Slavic) verbal bases of the shape *lV̄̆g-, *lV̄̆ź-. These include *leg-, *leź-, *lēg-, *lēź-, together ... -
Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project
(Sage, 2021-11-18)In this article we argue, in the context of the current dominance of the performative and instrumental drives characterising the accountable university, that language and intercultural communication education in ... -
Dealing With Language Gap in a Hungarian-English Early Childhood Classroom
The term ‘translanguaging' has been widespread in the field of Applied Linguistics in a short period of time, and just as quickly, it infiltrated in the field of Multilingual Education. Translanguaging is mostly seen as ... -
Design and Validation of a Questionnaire for the Measurement of Students’ Perceptions of Intercultural Practices within Bilingual Secondary Schools in the European Context
(Journal of Language and Education, 2021-09-30)Bilingual education (BE) is widely recognised as a complex phenomenon, which constitutes a priority for key educational institutions and organisations. However, further research is needed to uproot common beliefs such as ... -
Discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words
(John Benjamins, 2022-03-28)This study examines discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words from an interactional perspective based on naturally-occurring conversation data. Tokens of yey, ney, ey, ung, um, and e in Korean are widely recognized ... -
Don Quixote, Sweded by Michel Gondry in Be Kind Rewind (2008)
(De Gruyter, 2017-12-29)In the spirit of poetic license from Be Kind Rewind (2008), this article argues that Michel Gondry’s film “swedes,” its playful neologism for ersatz remaking of Hollywood and classic films, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don ... -
EL PERSPECTIVISMO DE REINA DE AMÉRICA COMO CONOCIMIENTO SITUADO DE LA VIOLENCIA Y LA NECROPOLÍTICA EN EL PACÍFICO COLOMBIANO
I write about the novel Reina de América in the first person, in self-chosen exile, which turns out to be the most comfortable way to think about Colombia. And it is that, how to think the organic violence of this nation ... -
El saber de la niñez callejera del cine peronista de Toscanito y Adrianita a Crónica de un niño solo (Favio, 1965)
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Emotional Intelligence and Intercultural Competence: Theoretical Questions and Pedagogical Possibilities
(Castledown Publishers, 2018-08-20)Against the background of increased global mobility and the need to communicate effectively across cultures, the development of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is of growing importance to those involved in intercultural ... -
Enhanced input and enriched context to improve the acquisition of the Spanish grammatical gender assignment and agreement: A preliminary study
(2019-01-01)Research in Second Language Acquisition has diagnosed extensively how the acquisition of a language’s grammatical gender system poses problems to learners of a second language while it is acquired effortlessly by native ... -
Ethics, Collaboration and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California
(Cultural Studies Association, 2017-01)This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas. We note how our process of collaboration ... -
German Narratives in International Television Format Adaptations: Comparing Du und Ich (ZDF 2002) with Un Gars, Une Fille (Quebec 1997-2002)
(Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2021)This article cross-culturally compares the German remake of the Quebec sketch comedy/sitcom series Un Gars, Une Fille ("A Guy and a Girl") the the original version by correlating quantitative data derived from the Adobe ... -
Growing up? In the “CINES CON NIÑO”
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Imposible Dialogo Entre el Olivo Y el Lenador
(MacGuffin, 2020-05-25)