Learner-centered and self-exploratory in its approach, this task-based oral skills text examines cross-cultural business practices and values. Its highly successful business case approach and methodology ask students to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to explain their own cultural values. Each of its units includes language-expansion exercises. Cases (some authentic) present business situations where cross-cultural conflict interferes with the business at hand. Students then explore ways to repair these communication breakdowns.
Each case analysis includes: -Exercises in comprehension and problem solving, discussion/critical thinking, and written reflection
-Worldwide business practices
-Key business vocabulary and language exercises that introduce idioms and expressions related to the topic
The goal of this volume is to examine the phenomenon of media communication from a cross-cultural perspective. The focus in the contributions is on the analysis of political discourse in the media which, in mediatized mass democracies, is for most people the only way in which they ever encounter politics. The cross-cultural perspective adopted in this collection of papers involves two basic approaches: on the one hand, culture-specific discourse practices of journalists and politicians are described and compared.
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment edited by Ronald K. Hambleton, Peter F. Merenda & Charles D. Spielberger
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation and conceptual and methodological issues in test adaptation are described in detail, and questions of ethics and concern for validity of test scores in cross-cultural contexts are carefully examined. Advances in test translation and adaptation methodology, including statistical identification of flawed test items, establishing equivalence of different language versions of a test, and methodologies for comparing tests in multiple languages, are reviewed and evaluated. The book also focuses on adapting ability, achievement, and personality tests for cross-cultural assessment in educational, industrial, and clinical settings. This book furthers the ITC's mission of stimulating research on timely topics associated with assessment. It provides an excellent resource for courses in psychometric methods, test construction, and educational and/or psychological assessment, testing, and measurement. Written by internationally known scholars in psychometric methods and cross-cultural psychology, the collection of chapters should also provide essential information for educators and psychologists involved in cross-cultural assessment, as well as students aspiring to such careers.
