Intercultural Communicative Competence
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While the role of culture in second and/or foreign language (L2/FL) learning and teaching has often been unquestioned, empirical research on culture learning and teaching in L2/FL education has been less common than opinion-oriented... more
Licence: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Abstract: Globalisation and technological advances have contributed greatly to increasing mobility in higher education (HE). One... more
Globalisation and advancements in communication technologies have brought a dramatic increase in the frequency and complexity of intercultural interactions. In addition to linguistic skills, foreign language (FL) learners today need the... more
Enhancing the development of intercultural communicative competence in business and study environments explores the development of intercultural communicative competence in English language teacher training and management. The author asks... more
Teaching English is given priority in the military system of higher education, being in fact the central intercultural core that provides substance, consistency and strength to the intercultural dimension of the academic military... more
The integrated and internationalized global economy, international exchanges, and cultural integration increased the frequency of intercultural communication, calling for intercultural communication talents. Thus, the cultivation of... more
There is a strong relationship between language and culture, both carryy the DNA samples of one another, which makes it hard to imagine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in classrooms and textbooks without any reference to target... more
This paper intended to provide examples of ICT resources that could be used in order to support and enhance the learning of English, at bachelor level, from an intercultural perspective. The development of intercultural communicative... more
В статье кратко представлена концепция обучению иностранным языкам (ИЯ) на основе использования фильмов. В статье подчеркивается важность положительного эффекта и, значимость разных стилей обучения, мозговой штурм при изучении и... more
Unité 9.3 **** Activité : comparaisons interculturelles
Bilingualism and multilingualism are the speaker’s ability to speak two or more languages. This capability is achieved by the individual speakers, where besides the mother tongue (L1) learners different languages on a parallel basis or... more
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between intercultural communicative competence and demotivation to learn a second language. The participants of the study included 60 Iranian EFL learners at the... more
Historically, a major focus on intercultural competence emerged out of research into the experiences of westerners working abroad (e.g., Peace Corp volunteers) in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. This early research was typically... more
2018 dans Actes du 9° Congrès panhellénique et international des professeurs de français (20- 23 octobre 2016) : Enseigner la langue et la culture françaises : construire des ponts socio-humanistes, Université nationale et capodistrienne... more
This test review examines the development of the Intercultural Development Inventory® v.3 (IDI®, Hammer, 2011), which measures practitioners’ orientations toward cultural differences. The theoretical framework for this instrument was... more
One of the most important aspects of cross-cultural competence of Economics students – the ability to overcome cultural barriers in professional communication at the international level is considered in the article. The author analyzes in... more
This dissertation addresses some of the pertaining issues in the field of intercultural competence, namely, the negative aspect of Ethnocentrism, the missing adherence to the cultural context, the lack of cross-disciplinary dialog, and... more
The significance of knowing a foreign language to communicate with people of other nations has never been so crucial since the beginning of humanity. The increase in interactions among nations, and possibilities of communicating with... more
The purpose of this article titled The marginalized status of French in Ghana: A real misrepresentation by the Media and Academia, is to highlight the actual status of French in current communication in Ghana, an Anglophone country. It... more
This article reviews and summarizes the literature on intercultural competence and intercultural communicative competence in order to better understand how these notions can impact the cultural component of a foreign language curriculum.... more
Студията представя резултати от литературно проучване на съществуващите множество модели на интеркултурната компетентност, като са подбрани най-популярните и е анализирана възможността на всеки от тях за интеграция във възпитателната... more
Developing ‘communicative competence’ in today’s classrooms is the main aim of foreign language teaching. On the other hand, enhancing the communicative competence of EFL learners also requires the development of intercultural knowledge... more
In light of the CLB 4 language requirement for citizenship application mandated by the federal government and the Canadian Language Benchmark’s application of Sociolinguistic Model, the ESL teacher is tasked with equipping newcomers for... more
Alvino E. Fantini, School for International Training, USA: This book offers educators an approach to developing 'intercultural citizenship' and illustrates ways in which teachers and learners can cooperate to develop an openness and... more
Moroccan Arabic dialect has not a designed pronoun for Spanish usted/es but it has a wide range of ways and vocatives to show a similar courtesy attitude, which makes the teacher working with Moroccan students think about the most... more
The concept of ‘communicative competence’, first proposed by Hymes, referred basically to abilities speakers have in their first language. This term, however, was appropriated and reworked (Canale & Swain 1980; van Ek 1986) within the... more
En el presente trabajo pasamos revista a una serie de investigaciones relacionadas con el factor edad en el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera. Como veremos, las teorías son muy variadas e incluso opuestas entre sí. Para poder... more
Teaching a foreign language does not merely involve teaching its linguistic system but also its cultural system. A native speaker of English may tolerate EFL speaker’s grammatical or phonological errors in communication but cultural... more
The introduction to this volume is intended to be a holistic introduction to international /intercultural communicative competence. In this introduction and part 1, the four chapters on the meaning of EIL competence by four different... more
Nei programmi scolastici d'insegnamento delle lingue straniere in Europa sono esplicitamente previsti obiettivi di competenza interculturale. A partire dal 2001, da quando cioè il Consiglio d'Europa raccomandò l'uso del Common European... more
Teaching a foreign language does not merely involve teaching its linguistic system but also its cultural system. A native speaker of English may tolerate EFL speaker's grammatical or phonological errors in communication, but cultural... more