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Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia pp 137–150Cite as

Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Liberal Arts Institutions

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This chapter first clarifies the concept of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the context of today’s multilingual and multi-cultural society. It then examines various approaches that liberal arts colleges and programs are taking and can take to develop ICC in their foreign language education programs and international programs. It concludes with suggestions for how East Asian liberal arts colleges and programs can improve ICC and pluriculturalism in their students and help them break out of ethnocentrism, cross over horizontally from their own cultures to other cultures, and become liberally-educated, culturally-aware and globally-minded citizens (Council of Europe 2001).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    ICC is used interchangeably with cross-cultural competence, global competence, intercultural competence, or global citizenship competence as pointed out in Deardorff (2004, 2006).

  2. 2.

    http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/autobiography/default_en.asp.

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    ICU is planning to establish a transfer system between both programs in the near future.

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    https://www.fivecolleges.edu.

  5. 5.

    http://www.china.org.cn/english/LivinginChina/184768.htm.

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    http://www.nasilp.net/index.php/member-resources/description-of-a-silp.

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    https://www.mangolanguages.com/.

  8. 8.

    http://www.rosettastone.eu/.

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    http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/slc/e/slc.html.

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    http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/cadre1_en.asp.

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    http://www.actfl.org.

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Ohe, HG. (2016). Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Liberal Arts Institutions. In: Jung, I., Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_12

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