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Have you had previous experiences that have enhanced your intercultural communication competence during your L2 learning?

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Have you had previous experiences that have enhanced your intercultural communication competence during your L2 learning?

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How can teachers enhance their ICC competence under significant work pressure? (Please give suggestions through the following several perspectives, teacher themselves, school, and education Bureau)

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How can teachers enhance their ICC competence under significant work pressure? (Please give suggestions through the following several perspectives, teacher themselves, school, and education Bureau)

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During my L2 learning, I had many chances to work with different backgrounds of classmates. This experience gives me chances to enhance my communication skills to communicate with diverse backgrounds of people.

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Finding common ground between students has helped me a lot in the past. Shared cultural experiences, social experiences, and even languages.

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Yes, in a course in university. The course is about intercultural communication with Japanese students. We are asked to design and make a presentation. That experience really enhances me ICC competence.

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Having classmates from different races

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When I had the opportunity to communicate in English with people from many different cultural backgrounds, I got to experience trying to understand and interact with multiple Englishes.

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Through the communication with foreign colleagues during internship. I learned their cultures, customs and implicature etc.

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In tertiary education and being in an multicultural environment, thus working with people from different cultural backgrounds, has enhanced my ICC.

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Talking to other teachers in the same school or through online media can help us increase ICC in more comfortable and easier ways. Discussion forums, teacher organizations, and social media are some examples.

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Teacher: make use of summer or winter vacation to travel to other countries. Immerse themselves.

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- EDB could offer some overseas trips for teachers to participate
- Liaison with overseas primary / secondary schools could be established so that overseas teachers and local teachers can exchange their ideas
- NET(s) could organize workshops for teachers to enhance their ICC

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Play multimedias such as podcasts and videos related to other cultures while doing chores to increase knowledge about them

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Honestly, like you said, the significant work pressure poses a great barrier for teachers, but this doesn't mean they have to stop learning. Giving themselves exposure to different experiences where they can interact with people who are different from them is already one good way. On the other hand, the government provides training and workshops for teachers to take to enrich themselves in their teaching practice. Teachers may attend these sessions to cultivate themselves. If the school allows, teachers can, with the sponsorship of the school, undertake in postgraduate studies that are related to intercultural communication.

But the main problem is that teachers are too jaded and exhausted. Ideally, to foster good intercultural communication, teachers need to remove themselves from the stressful situation and open themselves up again to have more space for other people.