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  • This paper analyzes an innovative approach to train students in Germany and the francophone part of Switzerland in intercultural communication competencies. The teaching material has been created during a cooperation project between a university in Germany and one in Switzerland. It deals with three different aspects: First, the learning and teaching approach, which is based on team learning experience described initially by Kolb (1984), the analysis of different intercultural subjects and upcoming critical incidents1 in teams (Schumann 2012). In a second part, it treats the developed teaching and learning material including the guidelines to indicate tasks and exercises to the students, as well as the realization of the project by the students of both institutions. And third, the paper concludes with an evaluation analyzing in detail the students’ opinion about the cooperation, what they liked or disliked, and which communication and working tools they applied. The evaluation results show a great success in learning intercultural competence with this method even in larger groups, as well as in the use of new media to bridge the distance. Occurring cultural problems were solved within the teams and by coaching from the teachers’ side, so that intercultural competencies and academic knowledge have been simultaneously developed during this group work. (author's abstract) (xsd:string)
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  • Teaching intercultural communication competencies as an international student cooperation project: an innovative teaching approach (xsd:string)
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  • In: interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien, 14, 2015, 25, 29-48 (xsd:string)
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