Promoting Intercultural Competence for Technical Writing Students: A Case Study of an Intercultural Business Memo Research Project

Authors

  • Yingqin Liu Cameron University Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

Keywords:

technical writing, intercultural communication course project, intercultural competence

Abstract

In the age of globalization, acquiring intercultural communication skills and developing intercultural competence are essential for technical and business communication students and practitioners. Using a case study from a technical writing course assignment, which explores the effectiveness of incorporating an intercultural business memo research project to improve students’ intercultural competence, the paper has come to some valuable conclusions. The findings show that it is useful and effective for teachers to use technical writing course research projects to help teach intercultural communication in the workplace for these ends.The findings indicate that the technical and business writing teachers need to find more effective ways of motivatingstudents in this intercultural communication learning process. The teachers also need to create more real-life tasks such as internship opportunities or service learning projects in some intercultural workplace settings to help students acquire intercultural competence.

 

Author Biography

Yingqin Liu, Cameron University Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

Yingqin Liu is an associate professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA. She obtained her PHD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University in 2007.  She also holds an MA  in English from Western Kentucky University, USA. Her research interests include intercultural communication and rhetoric, second language writing and teaching, and business communication and has published several articles in a variety of journals  .

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2015-08-18

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Liu, Y. (2015). Promoting Intercultural Competence for Technical Writing Students: A Case Study of an Intercultural Business Memo Research Project. Asian Journal of Education and E-Learning, 3(4). Retrieved from https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJEEL/article/view/2928

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