Welcome to chapter 11 “Interculturality”.

In a globalized world, developing intercultural skills can be an important asset in your life.

Studying in a multicultural environment, working in a group with international students or traveling abroad all contribute to enriching your university experience. What’s more, it contributes directly to your professional and personal development. In this chapter, we suggest a few ways of thinking about interculturality at university that will enable you to enrich your verbal and non-verbal communication repertoire. This skill invites you to adopt appropriate behaviours and attitudes towards people from other cultural groups.

We offer advice and techniques to help you making it easier to write formal letters to English or Spanish speakers.

Chapter objective

• Develop your intercultural skills to evolve in an academic or professional environment./li>

• Build strong relationships with teachers, students and stakeholders from other university cultures
• Get to know your own values and prejudices
• Adapt and react to different intercultural situations
• Be able to structure a letter or email in English
• Distinguish between formal writing techniques
• Adapt your language to your interlocutor
• Be able to structure a letter or email in Spanish
• Distinguish between formal writing techniques
• Adapt your language to your interlocutor
• Selecting the right writing and translation tools
• Distinguishing effective translation techniques

Part A: International mobility and studies

➥ Module 1: Interculturality at university
➥ Module 2a: Formal writing in English
➥ Module 2b: Formal writing in Spanish
➥ Module 3: Writing and translation tools