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INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE
TABLE OF CONTENT
The Introduction of D-I-E Tool

D-I-E Tool (Description, Interpretation and Evaluation)

The Importance of D-I-E Tool in Intercultural

Communication
1.The Introduction of
D-I-E Tool
 the verbal and nonverbal
symbols the others use

control the meanings we

attribute
 D-I-E tool

Description Interpretation Evaluation

The D-I-E tool is based on the assumption that most
people process the information around them using a kind
of mental shorthand.

The D-I-E trains you to distinguish among statements of

description, interpretation and evaluation.
 EXAMPLE 1
20

Most people who have spent a great

40
deal of time in such rooms have a
fairly accurate image of the
classroom

This classroom is "sterile, institutional-

looking, and unattractive". Students
and professors said.
 EXAMPLE 2
Hi! Your shoulders
normal comment are dropping, you're
not standing up
Hi! what's wrong?
straight, and you
you look really
walking much slower
tired and upset. than usual

strange comment
 2. D-I-E Tool

1 2 3

Description Interpretation Evaluation

• Includes the specific perceptual cues Provides a conjecture or hypothesis Indicates an emotional or
and information about what the perceptual affective judgment about the
• Without judgments, interpretations information might mean information
or being distorted by opinion.
 Sorry, I'm
late

most people think in spiritual shorthand, so generally

being aware of only the interpretations that immediately
come to mind used to describe2 an event
Kathryn

• arrived ten minutes after

the start of the class
Description
• also arrived late each of the
previous times

Can you interpret the situation of

Kathryn?
 • not care very much about this particular class
• always be late for everything
Interpretation
• be new on campus so easily being misinformed about the
starting time for the class

not care very much about this

particular class

Evaluation each interpretation, • This professor is really offended

the evaluation can vary by that attitude
• That professor likes a student who
chooses to be enthusiastic only about
classes she really likes
 3. The Importance of D-I-E tool in
Intercultural Communication
expand the communicator's choices
for

Understanding, responding positively to, behaving

appropriately with others from different cultures

Suspending judgment long enough to understand the

symbols used by the culture involved
D-I-E Tool
 The Summary of lesson
were provided to enhance intercultural
competence
D-I-E tool
stand for Description, Interpretation
and Evaluation

The importance: expand the communicators's

choices
 What does D-I-E stand for?

Fill in the blank

Normally, people get information from their
D-I -E to o l
general surroundings, they commonly form
interpretations and evaluations of it without
monitoring the particular ________ they have
perceived.
 Match the definitions with the best
answer
1. Evaluation a. includes the specific perceptual cues and information a
person has received, without judgments or interpretations,
or without being distorted by opinion.

2. Description
b. indicates an emotional or affective judgment
about the information.

3. Interpretation c. provides a conjecture or hypothesis about what

the perceptual information might mean.
 KEYS
1. Evaluation a. includes the specific perceptual cues and information a
person has received, without judgments or interpretations,
or without being distorted by opinion.

2. Description
b. indicates an emotional or affective judgment
about the information.

3. Interpretation c. provides a conjecture or hypothesis about what

the perceptual information might mean.
 The End

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