why did the school even bother of putting up the sign: results will be out 12-1-2005?!?!?!?!?!?!?! damn!!!!!!!!!! i went to the registrars office right after Human Quest 4, and all i got was a foolish smile, which meant, sorry, we're the stupid registrars who didn't finish up our work smile! shit shit shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really want my results man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! before leaving the office, i managed to shout out, but you guys told us it was today!!! tried to be more sarcastic, but didn't have the balls to do it.....hehehehehehe, how am i supposed to take an extra subject!!!!.............sob.....uhuks..........
Arasaratnam and Doerfel's (2005) study on defining intercultural communicative competence (ICC) may be dated, but I believe their discussions are very relevant to the current situation of ICC. Their study aimed to define ICC from a grounded exploratory approach. Their reasoning behind this is because of the subjective understanding of what intercultural is, and what competence is. Communication, from an intercultural perspective, is typified as spoken discourse. To come to a definition of ICC, the study interviewed a group of international and local students studying in an American university. The students were asked what they thought ICC is, and what they thought are key components of a person who is interculturally competent. Though responses were diverse, a common thread was induced. But would this common thread still be applicable to different cultural contexts? Probably from a qualitative perspective it would be, but perhaps not if viewed wit...
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