The list below is incomplete at best. It is intended here as a starting point for faculty who wish to explore resources and identify readings, activities, learning outcomes, and assessment tools that they can use in their study abroad programs or other overseas service trips or programs.

  • Janice Abarbanel, “Moving with Emotional Resilience Between and Within Cultures,” Intercultural Education 20:1-2 (2009): 133-141.
  • Janet Bennett, “Modes of cross-cultural training: Conceptualizing Cross-Cultural Training as Education”.  International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1986). 10(2), p.117.
  • A. Bird and J.S. Osland, “Beyond Sophisticated Stereotyping: Cultural Sensemaking in Context,” Academy of Management Executive, (2000) 14 (1):65-87
  • Chantal Crozet and Anthony J. Liddicoat, “The Challenge of Intercultural Language Teaching” in Striving for the Third Place: ICC through Language Education(Language Australia, 1999), 113-25.
  • Angela Scarino, “Assessing Intercultural Capability in Learning Languages” Language Teaching 42.1 (2009): 67-80.
  • Darla Deardorff, “Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization,” Journal of Studies in International Education 2006 10: 241-267
  • Deardorff, D.K. and K. Edwards, “Research on Intercultural Learning of Students in Service Learning,” In Clayton, Bringle & Hatchers, Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment.  Stylus, 2012.
  • Alvino Fantini, “About Intercultural Communicative Competence,” available at http://www.sit.edu/graduate/7803.cfm (appendix E) (revised 2005).
  • A.E. Fantini, “A Central Concern: Developing Intercultural Competence” available at http://www.sit.edu/publications/docs/competence.pdf
  • Alvino Fantini, “Assessing Intercultural Competence: Issues and Tools” in Darla K. Deardorff, ed., The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence. SAGE, 2012, pp. 456-476
  • A. Kolb and D. Kolb, “Learning styles and learning spaces: Enhancing experiential learning in higher education.” Academy of Management Learning & Education, (2005) Vol. 4, No. 2, 193-212.
  • David Matsumoto, “Culture and Cultural Worldviews: Do Verbal Descriptions about Culture Reflect Anything Other Than Verbal Descriptions of Culture?”  Culture and Psychology, 12, (2006) 33-62
  • D. Matsumoto and Yoo, Seung Hee “Toward a New Generation of Cross-Cultural Research”,  Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No 3 (Sep. 2006),  pp. 234-250
  • Levine, T.R. et al., “Self-Construal Scales Lack Validity,” Human Communication Research, (2003) 29, 210-252
  • Kyoung-Ah Nam, “Short-term study abroad: Quality, not quantity.” Intercultural Management Quarterly, 15(2) (2014): 14-17.
  • KyoungAh Nam, Y. Cho, & M. Lee, “West meets East? Identifying the gap in current cross-cultural training research.” Human Resource Development Review, 13(1) (2013), 36-57.
  • Kyoung-Ah Nam & Gerald Fry, “The development of global literacy and intercultural competence as a response to the complex challenges of the 21st Century: A meta-synthesis.” The Asian Journal of Educational Research and Synergy, 2(2) (2010), 9-32.
  • “The Nature and Scope of Intra-Cultural Variation on Psychological Dimensions”, Realo, A., & Allik, J. In W.J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D.N. Sattler (Eds.),Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (Unit 2, Ch. 8) (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University
  • Fons Trompenars and Peter Woolliams, “Lost in Translation: Ignorance of Differing Cultural Reactions to Failure Can Stunt Your Company’s Growth,” Harvard Business Review, April 2011, HBR Reprint W1104A
  • Colleen Ward and Antony Kennedy, “The Measurement of Sociocultural Adaptation,”International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1999) 23:4, pp. 659-677.
  • Gary Weaver, “Understanding and Coping with Cross-Cultural Adjustment Stress,” in Gary Weaver, ed. Culture, Communication and Conflict: Readings in Intercultural Relations. Revised 2nd edition. Pearson Publishing, (2000) : 177-194