Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom: the role of intercultural friendships and plurilingualism in the construction of a transcultural identity
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- dc.contributor.author Trenchs i Parera, Mireia
- dc.contributor.author Pastena, Andreana
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-21T10:16:51Z
- dc.date.available 2025-01-21T10:16:51Z
- dc.date.embargoEnd info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-03-11
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description.abstract This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university – and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom – manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family plurilingualism in the construction of an identity that reveals such competence, namely, a transcultural identity. Data include profile and transcultural competence questionnaires as well as interviews and classroom observations. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses show that first-year undergraduates in such a university display transcultural competence at the start of their studies, but more so students with intercultural friendships, personal or family plurilingualism, or belonging to a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom. Qualitative data document that this educational context may trigger affordances for diversified plurilingual intercultural interactions in which transcultural competence may manifest in the form of a complex transcultural ‘twenty-first-century youth identity’ that is linked to sensitivities and attitudes valuing heritage as well as a transnational way of life.
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- dc.identifier.citation Trenchs-Parera M, Pastena A. Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom: the role of intercultural friendships and plurilingualism in the construction of a transcultural identity. J Multiling Multicult Dev. 2024;45(2):209-23. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1874391
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1874391
- dc.identifier.issn 0143-4632
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69220
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2024;45(2):209-23.
- dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of multilingual and multicultural development on 17 Jan 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01434632.2021.1874391
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- dc.subject.keyword Higher education
- dc.subject.keyword Intercultural friendships
- dc.subject.keyword Internationalised classroom
- dc.subject.keyword Plurilingualism
- dc.subject.keyword Transcultural competence
- dc.subject.keyword Transcultural identity
- dc.title Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom: the role of intercultural friendships and plurilingualism in the construction of a transcultural identity
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