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Communicating across cultures: the interaction of cultural and language proficiency

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Vesa Peltokorpi,

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IWIC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration

Pages 289 - 292

https://doi.org/10.1145/1499224.1499279

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Expatriate assignments requiring interactions across cultural and linguistic boundaries are challenging. Expatriate failures have been ascribed to a lack of cross-cultural competence (CC) and cultural intelligence (CQ). While CC and CQ frameworks indicate characteristics needed for successful intercultural interaction, they provide little information about language proficiency and its interactions with cultural competences. We present a framework for evaluating the influence of different levels of proficiency in language and culture as well as the consequences of the interaction of these types of proficiency.

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IWIC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration

February 2009

342 pages

ISBN:9781605585024

DOI:10.1145/1499224

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Susan Fussell
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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Toru Ishida
Kyoto University, Japan

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Hachana RBen Zammel I(2019)Le langage dans les filiales entre système de légitimation sociale et levier de pouvoir : une analyse BourdieusienneManagement international10.7202/1060032ar23:2(73-87)Online publication date: 30-May-2019
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Patel NClawson JKang NChoi SStarner TLutters WSonnenwald DGross TReddy M(2010)A study of cultural effects on mobile-collocated group photo sharingProceedings of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work10.1145/1880071.1880091(121-130)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2010
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