17 1 2022 3 69-88

2017 2020

E-mail: [email protected]
doi: 10.53106/181653382022031701004
Journal of Curriculum Studies
March 2022, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 69-88

A Reflection of Current Issues on Intercultural

Competence from the Experiences of Taiwanese College
Students

W. Emily Chow

Abstract

Globalization has made people closely connected. It has also led to the collision
of cultures. Intercultural competence (IC) has become the basic competence of global
citizens. Facing global issues and an increasingly diverse society, it is necessary
for Taiwanese to gain the knowledge of and be equipped with IC. Education is the
cornerstone of competence cultivation. Taiwan has been committed to internationalizing
its education for more than a decade, its achievements in IC need to be examined. This
paper first expounded the meaning and importance of IC, then presented three major
current issues in IC Taiwan needs to contemplate based on observation and the college
student (domestic and external) data collected between 2017-2020: cultural stereotypes;
cultural sensitivity; and motivation to learn. It moreover put forward 3 suggestions:
strengthening teachers’ training; making IC the core competence of higher education; and
continuing campus internationalization to improve IC cultivation.

Keywords: cultural stereotyping, cultural sensitivity, intercultural competence

W. Emily Chow, Associate Professor, International Affairs Master’s & Diplomacy Bachelor’s Program,
Ming Chuan University. E-mail: [email protected]
doi: 10.53106/181653382022031701004
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壹、前言

2021 7

“Yoshiro Mori,” 2021

“Olympig” Inoue et al., 2021
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Kennedy , 2021
2020 6
Aunt Jemima Maloney, 2021 2020 11
IG “negrito”
Stone, 2020 2022
BBC The Guardian
“For the Record,” 2022; “UK Media
Feature Joss Paper,” 2022
Nagesh, 2018
Meixler, 2021;
Wang, 2016

“Olympig”
“Olympig”
1998
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“negrito”
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Stone, 2020

COVID-19
Tomlinson,
1999

Huntington, 19932018
Or ganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD
Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA

OECD, 2016
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2020

貳、跨文化素養與現階段議題

2015
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Bennett & Bennett, 2004; Spitzberg & Cupach, 1984
Spitzberg, 2000

Gudykunst, 1992; Wiseman, 2002

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Balestra & Fleischer, 2018

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