Date of Award

8-16-2017

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Department

Educational Leadership

First Advisor

Thomas Barrett

Abstract

The qualitative two case comparisons study explored the effect of different curricular models and instructional strategies on increasing learners’ intercultural communicative competence in two Chinese programs at two American universities. There were five student participants and three faculty members in a Confucius Institute program in a public university and five student participants and one faculty member in a traditional Chinese language acquisition program in small private baccalaureate college. Participants were interviewed for one hour individually on curricular models, instructional strategies and intercultural communicative competence. Student participants took the CCAI assessment before their interviews. The scores of the assessment indicated that the students in the private institution achieved higher scores than the students in the public university. However, neither of the two programs have a specific curricular model to increase students’ intercultural communicative competence at novice level. Some effective instructional strategies and successful extra-curricular activities were recommended from the faculty members’ and the students’ points of view.

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