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achievement, test results, statements from peers, examples of successfully com-
pleted language tasks, and so on.
One intention of the INCA project was to align its products as far as possible
with those already in the field. It was therefore felt helpful that the INCA port-
folio should mirror the three-section structure of the ELP. The ultimate aim is to
bring the two portfolios, the ELP and the INCA Portfolio, together into one.

Table 4. A selection of existing tools and scales for assessing intercultural competence

Behavioral Intercultural Intercultural The Inter-
Assessment Readiness Adjustment Po- national
Scale for Check tential Scale Profiler
Intercultural (Van der Zee (Matsumoto et (World Work
Competence and Brinkmann al. 2001) Limited n.d.)
(‘BASIC’) 2 2002)
(Koester and
Olebe 1988)
A. Dimen- – display of – intercultural – emotion – openness
sions respect sensitivity regulation – flexibility
– orientation to – intercultural – openness – personal
knowledge communi- – flexibility autonomy
– empathy cation – critical – emotional
– task role – intercultural thinking resilience
behaviour relationship – perceptive-
– interaction building ness
management – conflict – listening
– tolerance for management orientation
ambiguity – leadership – transparency
– interaction – preference for – cultural
posture certainty knowledge
– influencing
– synergy
B. Aim This tool ident- This tool is a The scale The 10 inter-
ifies certain 60-item ques- measures indi- national com-
skills valuable tionnaire which vidual differ- petences de-
in intercultural assesses how ences in the scribe in a clear
communication. participants cur- four constructs professional
The BASIC rently deal with considered context what is
descriptions of cultural differ- necessary for required by
behaviours are ences. intercultural highly effective
culture-general. adjustment. operators to
transfer skills
from a do-
mestic to an
international
context.