Intercultural Competence Initiatives

OSU Intercultural Competence in World Language Education Initiative

Series of webinars centering around the topics of Intercultural Learning in World Language Education. Presented by The Ohio State University and Purdue University.

Global Competence Matrix for World Languages

The general Global Competence Matrices can be used to both apply and assess global competence across curricula and disciplines. The matrices provide the basic tenets that form global competence.

The Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL)

The Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL) offers a wide selection of intercultural learning resources adapted for distance learning, virtual exchange (VE), and collaborative online intercultural learning (COIL).

Award-winning Jhumpa Lahiri Video Series

Pulitzer Prize-winning multilingual author, Jhumpa Lahiri, creates video series about how learning a new language helps us to develop the skills we need to thrive in our interconnected world.

ASIA Society

The idea of global competence articulates the knowledge and skills students need in the 21st century. Globally competent students have the knowledge and skills to Investigate the World; Recognize Perspectives; Communicate Ideas, and Take Action.

AFS-USA

As a leader in intercultural education, AFS is dedicated to engaging educators, students, families, and communities in learning about global competency. Global competence is cultivated both inside and outside the classroom.

The Peralta Online Equity Rubric

The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students. This rubric supports institutionalized practices that value diversity, inclusion, and equity in online environments.

AAC&U VALUE Rubrics

VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) is a campus-based assessment approach developed and led by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). VALUE rubrics provide needed tools to assess students’ own authentic work, produced across students’ diverse learning pathways, fields of study, and institutions, to determine whether and how well students are meeting graduation level achievement in learning outcomes that both employers and faculty consider essential.

Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

Inclusive pedagogy is a method of teaching in which instructors and students work together to create a supportive and open environment that fosters social justice and allows each individual to be fully present and feel equally valued. This toolkit offers concrete suggestions for designing inclusive, antiracist learning environments through five key interconnected aspects of teaching and learning relevant to all courses.

Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Culture

This module attempted first to demonstrate what we all know intuitively: language and culture are inextricably intertwined and should be taught that way as well. Next, it tried to illustrate how cultural literacy might fit into a language curriculum, even from the first days. And finally, it suggested that using authentic video might serve ideally as the bridge between linguistic content and cultural information in a lively and engaging context.

Flagship Culture Initiative

Scenario-Based Intercultural Learning for U.S. Students of Languages The Flagship Culture Initiative (FCI) is a collaborative, inter-institutional, international and cross-language initiative to provide U.S. Language Flagship students of Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian with opportunities for articulated intercultural learning in both domestic and overseas contexts.

Defense Language & National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) Culture Resources

The strategic vision of the DLNSEO Culture Section is to provide the necessary direction to enable the Department of Defense (DoD) to be adept at interacting across any culture while operating within the joint, Interagency, coalition, and multinational contexts.

The Learning Network New York Times

Since 1998, The Learning Network has been helping people teach and learn with The New York Times. Writing prompts, weekly quizzes, and more can be used in the classroom to connect students globally.

Globe Smart at IU

In GlobeSmart, students complete a brief survey, GlobeSmart generates their own personal Profile on five cultural orientation continuums: individualism/collectivism, egalitarianism/status, risk/certainty, direct/indirect, and task/relationship.