Building Intercultural Competence Through Virtual Team Collaboration Across Global Classrooms

Stephanie Swartz University of Applied Sciences Mainz ; Belem Barbosa ; Izzy Crawford Robert Gordon University

Abstract

By means of a cross-cultural virtual teams project involving classrooms in Scotland, Germany, and Portugal, students were exposed to the challenges of collaborating internationally with the intention of increasing their intercultural competency. Intercultural sensitivity and intercultural communication competency were measured using responses to surveys before and after the 6-week project. Students reported, among other aspects, a heightened awareness of the difficulties of intercultural communication. Despite a general appreciation of the project and its outcomes, negative results, such as an increased dislike of intercultural interaction, emerged. Contradictory results warrant further investigation with data from future collaborations.

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
Published
2020-03-01
DOI
10.1177/2329490619878834
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