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• Globalization - The increasing economic, political, and cultural integration, and interdependence of diverse cultures -- the worldwide integration of humanity.
• Diversity - The recognition and valuing of differences encompassing factors such as age, language, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, religion, education, marital status, sexual orientation, and income.
• Cross-cultural communication - Communication that takes place between individuals from different cultures, involving understanding caused by misperception, misinterpretation, and misevaluation.
• Culture - The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution or organization, including the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic.
• Language registers - Different styles or varieties of language determined by factors such as the audience, topic, purpose, and location, including static, formal, consultative, casual, and intimate registers.
• Critical readers, thinkers, and writers - Individuals who engage intellectually with texts, recognizing that meanings and values are constructed and not inherent, and ask pertinent questions, note significant features, and consider credibility.
• Visual literacy - The ability to decode, interpret, create, question, challenge, and evaluate texts that communicate through visual images.
• Multimodal texts - Texts that integrate different modes such as visual, auditory, and textual elements to create meaning and convey messages.