The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous
computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction …

This paper provides a commentary on recent contributions to the subject of teacher
development and growth, focusing particularly on our understanding of some of the …

In an effort to articulate an agenda for learner outcomes research linked to the Standards for
Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century, this review examines the profession's …

A new exploration of the teaching and learning of culture in English language teaching and
learning is overdue, given the particular importance of approaches to culture and …

The study involved 16 American undergraduate students who used weekly blogs and
conducted ethnographic interviews with native speakers to develop their intercultural …

Most intercultural competence training designs focus on international exchange and study
abroad opportunities, however, approaches for develo** intercultural competence “at …

This article proposes a reconsideration of curricular objectives with respect to the teaching of
culture, in the interest of broadening the humanistic scope of the second/foreign language …

The term ethnography refers to a range of diverse and ever-changing research approaches
(Atkinson, Coffey, Delamont, Lofland, & Lofland, 2001) originating in anthropological and …

This paper presents a qualitative study of immigrant Chinese teachers' professional identity
and beliefs about the teacher-student relationship in an intercultural context. Theoretically …

Research on culture in foreign language teaching has focused on definitional and curricular
problems as well as on instances of non-adaptation to target-language cultural norms …