Cross-cultural Learning

I am lucky to be able to grow among my family who strongly believe that Ireland and Celtic legacy should be celebrated. From them, I learned the beauty of my own culture and learned about the culture of others. I told my gratitude throughout my life, and I found that it made everything different. The earliest intercultural experience I recalled was a Spanish exchange student sponsored by one of my aunts. Mai not only talked about his culture, but this time it also caused interest in Spanish / Latin American culture.

Yamazaki (2005) outlines the classification of skills necessary for cross-cultural learning based on Kolb's empirical learning theory (1984). He identified 73 learning skills that incorporated 10 themes for intercultural learning. He also suggested that changes in adaptation strategies of foreigners may reflect differences in the cultural background of foreign adaptation: for cross-cultural adaptation, develop specific intercultural skills based on ELT There is a need to.

In learning theory, Kolb's empirical learning model is attracting particular attention to intercultural activities (Hoppe 1990). When studying the intercultural differences between learning style and other learning programs, Kolb's learning model has been widely used in intercultural and international studies (eg Katz 1988; Hoppe Yuen and Lee 1994; Jackson 1995; Auyeung and Sands 1996; Fridland 2002; Barmeyer 2004; Yamazaki and Kayes 2007. The learning style depends on the interaction between people and the environment (Kolb 1984) Kolb 2001) further explains that this interaction forms a five-step learning style (Kolb et al. 2001): spiritual type, specialization of education, career, current work and adaptability These In addition to the five levels, Yamazaki and Kayes (2004) points out that the culture surrounding people is the sixth level of interaction to form a learning style.

According to Holden (2002), intercultural knowledge transfer, intercultural exchange learning, intercultural communication, interactive translation, participatory development, and cooperative atmosphere creation are intercultural Attention is the six central issues to focus on. Cross-cultural networks are important in integrating cross-cultural knowledge transfer and intercultural communication and cooperation, not through intercultural networks, and can lead to cultural shock, friction, and misunderstanding . As a result, the organization has established a network with both cross-cultural knowledge transfer and joint intercultural learning. Interactive translation is often used by international companies. Members of the company gather together to discuss common meanings and common understandings of negotiating companies (Ehrenfreund, 2010)