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Relational challenges in an intercultural volunteer program in Jordan : views from Chinese participants
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Tian, Zhaohui and McConachy, Troy (2021) Relational challenges in an intercultural volunteer program in Jordan : views from Chinese participants. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 50 (6). 588--609. doi:10.1080/17475759.2021.1959381 ISSN 1747-5759.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2021.1959381
Abstract
Research on international volunteer programmes has paid little attention to participants’ own situated understandings of intercultural communication experiences in a short-term international volunteer context. The paper reports on a qualitative investigation into the experiences of Chinese participants in a short-term international volunteering programme in an elementary school in Jordan which involved co-teaching the English language with partners from the U.S. It focuses on how participants interpreted the challenges of managing communication and building rapport with the children and their volunteer partners, with particular attention to the attribution of difficulties to perceived cultural differences. Findings show that participants struggled to interpret the significance of behaviour outside their usual cultural frames of reference and that frequent reliance on dichotomous framings of cultural difference created barriers to rapport.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Intercultural communication , Cross-cultural orientation , Language and languages -- Study and teaching, Communication in foreign language education -- Jordan, Voluntarism -- International cooperation, Volunteer workers in education -- Training of -- Jordan, Cultural relations, China -- Relations -- Jordan, Jordan -- Relations -- China | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Intercultural Communication Research | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1747-5759 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 5 August 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 50 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Page Range: | 588--609 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17475759.2021.1959381 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Journal of Intercultural Communication Research on 5/08/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17475759.2021.1959381 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 August 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 February 2023 |
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