Greenaway, Thomas (2018) Fostering global graduates: researching student actions in teamwork projects, and the ways through which students develop intercultural competencies. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This study explores how students develop intercultural competencies through teamwork experiences. Universities, in order to produce “global graduates,” need to focus on fostering their students' teamwork skills and intercultural competencies so that they can communicate well with people from different cultural backgrounds. However, students are often given teamwork projects where the development of such competencies is incidental rather than deliberate. Until now, research that looks at student teamwork projects tends to focus on selfreports and focus groups, instead of looking at the group processes themselves. There are two aspects of research that have until now received little attention: how students interact in teamwork projects, and how they develop intercultural competencies from their teamwork experiences. This thesis will present two case studies from multicultural team projects in undergraduate STEM modules, where the students' interactions were recorded and reflected upon in stimulated-recall style interviews. It will then consider the extent to which students’ intercultural competencies were demonstrated and enhanced through their teamwork projects, and areas in which they could be enhanced further. This will be followed by policy recommendations for designing student teamwork projects, with a focus on the need for embedding reflection at all stages of the project, and focussing students on their communicative processes, learning and applying IC frameworks to their experiences, and developing reflective practices.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Intercultural communication, Group work in research, Multinational work teams, College students
Official Date:	10 October 2018
Dates:	Date Event 10 October 2018 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Centre for Applied Linguistics
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Spencer-Oatey, Helen, 1952-
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	307 leaves : charts
Language:	eng

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