scholarly journals Teaching Translation: A House with Windows Facing Different Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Wensheng Deng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The One

Globalization accelerates the pace to communicate with other nations. Foreign language plays a big player in the process of communication. Among the language abilities, translation competence is becoming more and more remarkable in cross-cultural interaction. What’s more, the pushing forces, derived from the One Belt and One Road Initiative and Telling Good Chinese Stories and Spreading the Positive Voice of China, have urged us to train more translators. However, translation training and education at college can’t meet the needs satisfactorily, because there are some problems there. Faced with the issues of translators’ training, the thesis is going to rethink about teaching translation. It proposes to open five windows, five dimensions with diversified orientations for students to develop translating competence. They are windows of linguistic, cultural, literary, political or ideological, functionalist and digital. But, the five dimensions can only help students to form or acquire translation abilities, rather only if the teacher could offer them the abilities once for all. Further, the thesis suggests students to integrate the six aspects to develop their competence.

scholarly journals Biståndshandläggare om möten med sent-i-livet-invandrade äldre – inblick i hur en institutionell kategori skapas

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Torres ◽  
Anna Olaison ◽  
Emilia Forssell
Keyword(s):  
Care Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The One

Care managers on need assessment with late-in-life immigrants: insights into how an institutional category is created Research on the implications of cross-cultural interaction for needs assessment practice is scarce. This is particularly the case when it comes to research on care management within elderly care. There is therefore a need to explore the ways in which care managers regard and experience cross-cultural interaction when assessing older people’s needs prior to granting access to elderly care services. This article is based on a project that aimed to explore just that through focus group interviews with care managers (n=60) who work within the context of Swedish elderly care. The analysis presented here addresses the ways through which an institutional category is created as care managers discuss the kind of cross-cultural interaction that they find the most challenging (which is the one involving older people who migrated late, do not speak Swedish and come from cultures that are deemed to be too different). The analysis discloses the underlying assumptions about Otherness that the care managers alluded to when sharing their views on, and experiences of, assessing needs by way of cross-cultural interaction with late-in-life immigrants. The article discusses the implications that these findings have for care management practice in Sweden considering that the legislation dictates that care managers need to attend to older people’s “uniqueness”. The analysis reveals that the uniqueness associated with certain client categories is too unique to cater for

scholarly journals Multicultural Education of Students as an Important Part of Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Izida I. Ishmuradova ◽  
Alfiya M. Ishmuradova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Multicultural Competencies ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Positive Effect

This article is about the improvement of the cross-cultural interaction of students. It is dealt with some country studies projects. It is shown that country studies projects have a positive effect on the process of teaching students. The content of this article can be used to improve the process of teaching a foreign language. results showed that Multicultural competencies of the students are the component of the professional competencies.  Country studies projects, namely: creative works and country studies educational festivals are the effective basis for the formation of multicultural competencies of students.  

Integrating cross-cultural interaction through video-communication and virtual worlds in foreign language teaching programs: is there an added value?

ReCALL ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Canto ◽  
Kristi Jauregi ◽  
Huub van den Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Web Communication ◽  
Experimental Group

AbstractOrganizing and implementing telecollaboration projects in foreign language curricula is not an easy endeavour (Belz & Thorne, 2006; Guth & Helm, 2010), as pedagogical, organizational and technical issues have to be addressed before cross-cultural interaction sessions can be carried out (O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006; O'Dowd, 2011). These issues make many teaching practitioners reluctant to try to integrate telecollaboration in their teaching, as they are more aware of the burden such initiatives might impose than of the benefits they might have for language learners.Within the European project NIFLAR1 we have tried to study the added value that integrating synchronous collaboration projects through video-web communication or Second Life might have in language learning. The study presented in this paper measures the oral communicative growth of language students, who were allocated at random to one of three research conditions: (1) the VC experimental group carried out interactions with native peers through video-web communication; (2) the SL experimental group carried out the same tasks with native peers in Second Life and (3) the control group performed the tasks face to face with classroom peers and had no opportunity to interact with native experts. Communicative growth was measured by comparing oral pre- and post-tests across conditions. Results show significant differences, the experimental groups outperforming the control group.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK IN CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
N.V. Eremina ◽  
◽  
V.V. Tomin ◽  
J.V. Kanyukova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Training System ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Work

Currently, a very urgent problem in the university training system of students in foreign languages is the problem of designing educational and methodological complexes for classroom and extracurricular use. Analysis of this problem’s state in the context of social order allows us to note that the domestic market is insufficiently saturated with the required teaching aids. Existing textbooks differ, as a rule, either by a traditional formal approach or by a hypertrophied professional orientation and the absence of assignments aimed at independent extracurricular work. Educational and methodological complexes at the university level should be built based on communicative, sociocultural, and cognitive approaches. Raising the status of a foreign language in many countries’ education systems poses the task of creating new pedagogical, didactic, and methodological developments of conditions for improving the process of its learning. A characteristic feature of didactic aids is the versatility of their application. The structuredness of educational and methodological complexes in the form of multi-level blocks contributes to developing students of a scientific organization for the development of educational material, free orientation within the course, and the development of practical skills for performing control tasks. The main criteria for selecting material for students’ independent work are problematic, relevance, availability, adequacy, optimality of volume and complexity, the possibility of self-control and self-correction, and variability of tasks. Independent work in a foreign language in the context of cross-cultural interaction at non-linguistic faculties is an obligatory part of the educational process. The main goals are achieving an appropriate level of foreign language communicative competence and preparing graduates for an independent increase in foreign language proficiency. When planning and organizing students’ independent work in cross-cultural interaction, it is necessary to consider their readiness to perform this type of work: psychological, theoretical, practical.

scholarly journals Evolution and crisis of multiculturalism in light of the ideas of polyethnic (cross-cultural) justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Alexey Viktorovich Suslov
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
The One ◽  
Ethnic Norms ◽  
Cultural Justice

The goal of this research lies in analyzing the essence and problems of the genesis of multiculturalism and its varieties, factors of crisis in its development, and overcoming the crisis situation in a broad ethical-philosophical context. The author demonstrates that the construction of multicultural society should be based not on a limited understanding of culture as a set of religious statutes, ethnic norms, customs and traditions, but on the philosophical conceptualization of culture as a system that forms profound values, the crucial of which is justice. Special attention is given to substantiation of the categories of “social justice” and “law”, which manifest as the essential grounds of a modern multicultural society. It is demonstrated that social justice is the determining basis for the development of modern multicultural societies, i.e. the necessary condition for harmonious coexistence of individuals, groups and society as a whole. The conclusion is made that on the one hand, the globalization processes strengthen the integration, forming a single sociocultural space, while on the other hand, complicate the adaptation of ethnic cultures and their representatives, which generates tension in cross-cultural interaction, as well as inclusion and positive reliance on social justice as the fundamental value of any society allows finding the ethical measure in regulation of issues emerging in modern multicultural societies.

scholarly journals ACQUIRING EXPERIENCE OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION IN A MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF A MODERN UNIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Anna V. Selkova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Methods And Techniques

The article covers the issue of acquiring experience of cross-cultural interaction among students in a multicultural university environment. The author distinguishes the notions of “cross-cultural interaction” and “cross-cultural communication”, identifies the criteria for the assessment of the competence of cross-cultural interaction, and suggests methods and techniques of developing skills of cross-cultural interaction and communication at foreign language classes.

Employing Latino Value Orientations to Facilitate Success in Stuttering Treatment

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Lourdes Ramos-Heinrichs ◽  
Lynn Hansberry Mayo ◽  
Sandra Garzon
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Collaborative Partnership ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Cultural Connections

Abstract Providing adequate speech therapy services to Latinos who stutter can present challenges that are not obvious to the practicing clinician. This article addresses cultural, religious, and foreign language concerns to the therapeutic relationship between the Latino client and the clinician. Suggestions are made for building cross-cultural connections with clients and incorporating the family into a collaborative partnership with the service provider.

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