Reciprocal Images of Portuguese and Turkish University Students: Minding Intercultural Gaps in Foreign Language Education

This chapter considers interculturality in language education using the example of online intercultural exchanges between Danish and francophone university students. The focus is on an intercultural approach in foreign language education that stands apart from the perspective that emphasizes “facts” about a “target culture.” The approach consists of the co-construction of intercultural competences by students in online interactions. The methodology of tracing evidence of intercultural competences in online interactions is questioned, in the sense that the author seeks the complementarity of different processes to trace manifestations of intercultural competences in online pedagogical interactions. This contributes to the description and evaluation of intercultural competences as a complex construct in the field of intercultural education.

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Enhancing employability skills of university students: development trends of British foreign language education

Science and Education a New Dimension ◽

10.31174/send-pp2018-163vi67-10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol VI(163) (67) ◽

pp. 41-44

Author(s):

O. M. Kovalenko ◽

S. O. Karaman

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

University Students ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Employability Skills ◽

Development Trends

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Development of language skills included into speech competences in the context of integration of academic and communicative approaches to foreign language education of first-year pedagogical university students

Science and School ◽

10.31862/1819-463x-2021-6-216-228 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 216-228

Author(s):

Svetlana V. Mayorshina ◽

Marina K. Tarasova ◽

Angelina V. Zhavoronkova

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

University Students ◽

Language Skills ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

First Year ◽

Development Of Language

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Reconsidering Interculturality in Online Language Education

Multicultural Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9279-2.ch007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 130-163

Author(s):

Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

University Students ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Intercultural Education ◽

Online Interactions ◽

Target Culture

This chapter considers interculturality in language education using the example of online intercultural exchanges between Danish and francophone university students. The focus is on an intercultural approach in foreign language education that stands apart from the perspective that emphasizes “facts” about a “target culture.” The approach consists of the co-construction of intercultural competences by students in online interactions. The methodology of tracing evidence of intercultural competences in online interactions is questioned, in the sense that the author seeks the complementarity of different processes to trace manifestations of intercultural competences in online pedagogical interactions. This contributes to the description and evaluation of intercultural competences as a complex construct in the field of intercultural education.

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