Project
Improve Students’ Communicative Performance in an Intercultural Context by Improving Their Intercultural Communication Competence
Chinese students are generally facing challenges in intercultural communication while the challenges are rarely addressed efficiently, and this further leads to a passive reaction such as keeping silence or being less active during the communication.
This project aims at exploring challenges they faced in intercultural communication and coping strategies may address these challenges efficiently on one hand, and benefits both students and teachers for improving their learning and teaching on the other hand. Based on intercultural communication competence (ICC) construct, a series of studies will investigate the lived experience of students to analysis factors that facilitate or impede the intercultural communication, and approaches of doing interventions and self-management will be discussed as well. The ambition is to explore to what extent that ICC could help to improve students’ performance under international contexts. Chenjie Yang is a PhD candidate of the joint program held by Wageningen University & Research and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), which starts February 1st 2022 at ELS and Graduate School of CAAS.
Promoters:
Dr. Harm Biemans (Wageningen University & Research, ELS)
Prof. Jifang Liu (Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS)
Dr. Vitaliy Popov (University of Michigan, Medical School and School of Information)