Transnational Higher Education: Teaching Cross-Culturally

This small scale of study looks into the cultural competence of the university faculty members for their teaching at offshore programs. The participants in this study are the faculty members at one private university, Tree U, in Taiwan, offering their master degree master programs in English in cooperating with the local universities in Vietnam since 2007. Seven informants were selected as of their direct teaching experiences in at least one of these offshore programs in different regions of Vietnam. The four components of cultural intelligence (CQ), metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioral, developed by Earley and Ang (2003), are adopted as the framework for semi-‐structure interview design and analysis. Through self-‐reflections upon their cultural intelligences (CQ) during the in-‐depth interviews, it has found that the informants have various levels of cultural competence due to their personality, backgrounds, training as well as experiences. However, it reveals that motivational cultural intelligence has an overwhelming influence on their cultural adoption and the success as well as satisfactions of the offshore teaching experiences.