How Different are We?

This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies.

About the author

Dr Helen FitzGerald has had extensive experience teaching English to immigrants and international students in both Australia and Asia. At present she is an advanced skills teacher at the Canberra Institute of Technology teaching immigrants in the Adult Migrant Education Program. For the last ten years, she has also had an overlapping career as an intercultural communication consultant and trainer, designing and delivering customised courses and briefings for a wide range of Australian organisations in both the private and public sectors. During this time, she has written a textbook, Cross-Cultural Communication for the Tourism and Hospitality Industry, and written and co-authored a number of articles, training courses and online courses on intercultual communication, on English writing and grammar, and on equity and diversity issues.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Helen Fitzgerald, Helen Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 148 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology