An assessment of students’ intercultural competence in public and private universities in Vietnam
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Intercultural competence has played an extremely important role in an increasingly globalised world where people are likely to communicate with people from different cultural groups or countries which have been greatly shaped by various values, practices and perspectives. In Vietnam, whilst several scholars mainly focus on intercultural competence in the context of teaching and learning language, a few publications have been found in terms of assessing the level of intercultural competence among students in tertiary education. To fill this gap, this paper aims to give an insight into students’ intercultural competence in public and private universities. A nine-teen questionnaire was undertaken with 336 participants that include 175 students from private universities and 161 students from public universities. The findings show that students’ intercultural competence in both types of school was not high although that from private schools was proved to be more outstanding regarding attitudes and skills.
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