Which of the following is a true statement about intercultural and intercultural communication?

Professional Development for Intercultural Teaching & Learning

Helping faculty and staff navigate cultural differences and facilitate intercultural learning—at home and abroad—to create more inclusive classrooms, campuses, and communities.

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Does this sound familiar?Your institution has a mission, vision statement, or strategic plan that refers to developing intercultural competence, cultural competence, global citizenship, cultural fluency, or similar. But it’s unclear how exactly that goal will be accomplished (it might even be unclear just exactly what that means).

Or maybe it is clear: the focus is on sending more students abroad and/or recruiting a diverse student body.

But you know that’s not enough. Simply bringing people into contact with cultural difference is not going to magically make this a more inclusive, equitable world.You know the institution needs to do more and you’d like to help lead the way. But how?!

If this sounds familiar, True North Intercultural can help.

Intercultural competence can no longer be viewed as a ‘nice to have’ skill in our world. It is a ‘must have.’

We all need to better understand and appreciate the complex cultural differences that exist in the world, and be able to engage effectively and appropriately across these differences.

That means our educational institutions need to get serious about fostering intercultural development. This work must include developing the intercultural competence of faculty, staff, and leaders, not just students.

My name is Tara Harvey, and I started True North Intercultural in 2016 to help meet this need. We provide in-person and online professional development to help educators (faculty, administrators, staff, and leadership) and institutions of higher education develop their capacity to better navigate cultural diversity and facilitate intercultural learning.

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“Through this examination of trends and looking to the future of higher education, it becomes clear that there is a particular need for the integration of intercultural competence—the process of being able to communicate and act effectively and appropriately across cultures—in order for students to succeed in solving global problems and actualizing the goals of education.”

- AIEA Report for the UNESCO Futures of Education Initiative, Spring 2021: Global Learning and Intercultural Competence as Imperatives for the Future of Higher Education: Reducing Inequities and Creating Effective Global Problem-Solvers

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1. Language has different components. Which of the following is concerned with the study of the meanings of words, and the relationships between words and the things they refer to?

1. morphology
2. semantics
3. syntax
4. phonology

Answer: B

2. Which of the following communication styles are more likely to be associated with individualistic cultures?

1. direct
2. elaborate
3. pragmatic
4. contextual

Answer: A

3. Which of the following statements is true of an instrumental style of communication?

1. The speaker’s needs and intentions are explicitly communicated.
2. The speakers express emotions.
3. The speaker is goal-oriented and sender-focused to achieve an outcome.
4. The speaker uses colourful language to elaborate on needs and wants.

Answer: C

4. Which best describes the practice of ‘culture jamming’?

1. a practice that simplifies grammatical structures of different languages
2. a practice that prefers only a direct communication style
3. a practice that encourages women to speak louder
4. a practice that aims to disrupt consumer culture by using a particular type of language while transforming corporate advertising with subversive language

Answer: D

5. Deborah Tannen (1990), a discourse analyst, claims that men and women express themselves differently. Which of the following statements is true of gender communication, according to Tannen?

1. Women usually use verbal communication to report about the world.
2. Women usually use verbal communication to report and for rapport.
3. Men usually use verbal communication for rapport.
4. Men usually use verbal communication to report about the world.

Answer: D

6. Although languages differ, there are some common characteristics. Which of the following statement best characterizes language, according to Neuliep (2017)?

1. All languages have some way of naming objects, places or things.
2. All languages share the same meaning of the word ‘snow’.
3. All languages have a set of formal grammatical rules for combining sounds and words to create meaning.
4. All languages have some way of naming objects, places or things, and have a set of formal grammatical rules for combining sounds and words to create meaning.

Answer: A

7. Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between language and identity?

1. Language is an integral part of our personal, social, ethnic, and national identities, because language marks our cultural and social boundaries.
2. The language we speak does not influence how we perceive and categorize the world around us in any way.
3. Language is used for identities more by women than by men.
4. Language symbolizes identity only for migrants but not for local citizens of the immigrant receiving country.

Answer: A

8. In contemporary societies, our lives are strongly governed by the political environment, the economy, different public and private institutions, and the media. Fairclough (2003) points out that discourses ______.

1. do not represent the world as is
2. represent possible worlds we imagined or projected to be
3. are not important in constructing and framing our identities
4. do not regulate what can or cannot be said in a given society

Answer: B

9. To translate ‘It rains cats and dogs’ from English into another language may cause problems. Which type of translation problem does this example illustrate?

1. conceptual equivalence
2. experiential equivalence
3. idiomatic equivalence
4. vocabulary equivalence

Answer: C

10. Which of the following is true of the constructivists’ view on language acquisition?

1. There is a universal grammar which governs language acquisition.
2. Language acquisition requires interaction with a structured environment.
3. Language acquisition does not involve unveiling the patterns of language.
4. Language acquisition can take place independent of context.

Answer: B

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