Abstract
The basic determination for this paper is to throw light on the culture general models of intercultural communication competence (ICC). Furthermore, to propose a culture general model for Malaysian context in the presence of religiosity. It is suggested by the previous researchers to refine these models by adding variables in them. Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia is hosting huge number of international students in their institutions and have plans to host maximum from the whole world. Religion is the key element of intercultural interactions in Malaysia. Therefore, a research on the international students in the context of religion would provide the better understanding and application of culture general model of ICC in Malaysian context. As well as, it will provide valuable findings that depicts to what extent the religiosity of international students enables them to be competent in intercultural communication.
Highlights
The consensus of the well-known researchers regarding the definition of intercultural competence is missing (Deardorff, 2006; Fantini, 2000; Rathje, 2007; Spitzberg & Changnon, 2009)
The purpose of this study is to do detailed review of culture general models of intercultural communication competence (ICC) and enhance the recent model of ICC developed by Arasaratnam and Banerjee (2011) by adding religiosity variable according to the context of Malaysia
Corrigan, McCroskey, and PunyanuntCarter (2006) demonstrated that religion is an essential constituent in the learning of intercultural communication
Summary
The basic determination for this paper is to throw light on the culture general models of intercultural communication competence (ICC). To propose a culture general model for Malaysian context in the presence of religiosity. It is suggested by the previous researchers to refine these models by adding variables in them. Religion is the key element of intercultural interactions in Malaysia. A research on the international students in the context of religion would provide the better understanding and application of culture general model of ICC in Malaysian context. It will provide valuable findings that depicts to what extent the religiosity of international students enables them to be competent in intercultural communication
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