Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

✍ Scribed by Michael Byram (editor); Adam Nichols (editor); David Stevens (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: In the Classroom
1. The International Partnership Project
2. Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature
3. ‘Up the Hills of Identity’
4. Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts
5. An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus
6. ‘Family life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French
7. ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education
Part 2: Beyond the Classroom
8. Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students
9. Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection
10. Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project
11. New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies
12. Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity
13. ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners
Part 3: Developing Resources
14. Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools
15. ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’
16. British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students
17. Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others
Further Reading
Index