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Unit Five: Intercultural learning and competence

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INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS

INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSUnitsUnit Five: Intercultural learning and competenceStep five: Summary: Are you interculturally competent ?

Step five: Summary: Are you interculturally competent ?

Intercultural competence in sum

  • Intercultural competence also results from a critical reflection on one’s own culture and awareness of the diversity of cultures that is integrated in intercultural communication.
  • Intercultural competence is complex and difficult to acquire.
  • This learning process is easier for those who already have some traits or skills, such as an acute perception and good observation skills.
  • It is clearly a multifaceted and systemic concept.

To conclude this unit, we suggest that you perform the following test in order to diagnose your own level of intercultural competence (source: Earley and Mosakowski, 2004, Harvard Business Review).