Intercultural communicative competence: A vital skill in the context of ASEAN economic community

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thao Quoc Tran ◽  
Tham My Duong
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community

ASEAN countries are about join in a single market and production base known as ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015, which will enhance freer flows of goods, services, investment, capital, and people. This will enable the process of regional integration in which people from diverse cultures will live, meet, and work together. Accordingly, culture clash and shock and communication breakdown would seem to be unavoidable if people in ASEAN community are not well prepared in terms of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in order to effectively and appropriately function in multicultural situations. Therefore, this paper discusses the reasons why ICC is a must-to-have in AEC, and gives some implications to promote ICC among people in terms of English language education. Keywords: English language (EL), ASEAN Economic Community (ACE), Intercultural communicative competence (ICC).

scholarly journals Interculturality in English Language Teaching – A Small Study with Portuguese Teachers

e-TEALS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Ana Ponce de Leão
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Teachers Perceptions

Abstract UNESCO and many other organisations worldwide have been working on approaches in education to develop tolerance, respect for cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue. Particularly, the Council of Europe has laid out guiding principles in several documents to promote intercultural competence, following Byram’s and Zarate’s efforts in integrating this important component in language education. The commitment to developing the notion of intercultural competence has been so influential that many countries, e.g., Portugal, have established the intercultural domain as a goal in the foreign language curricula. However, this commitment has been questioned by researchers worldwide who consider that action is needed to effectively promote intercultural competence. The research coordinated by Sercu, for example, suggests that, although foreign language teachers are willing to comply with an intercultural dimension, their profile is more compatible with that of a traditional foreign language teacher, rather than with a foreign language teacher, who promotes intercultural communicative competence. In this study, I propose to examine teachers’ perceptions and beliefs about intercultural communicative competence in a cluster of schools in Portugal and compare these findings with Sercu’s study. Despite a twelve-year gap, the present study draws similar conclusions.

scholarly journals Asean Integration In Improving Indonesian Women Education: A Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Rostiena Pasciana ◽  
Ieke Sartika Iriany
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Cooperation Partners ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
And Training

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an organization of countries in Southeast Asia established in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 8, 1967 under the Bangkok Declaration by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. For more th an five decades ASEAN has experienced many positive and significant developments towards a more integrative and forward - looking stage with the establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2015.  The ASEAN Community not only affects the economic sector, but also other sectors, including "education" as an effort to build competitive human resources. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) challenges in education that will be faced are the proliferation o f foreign educational institutions, standardization of orientation in education, which is pro - market, and markets labor that will be flooded by foreign workers. Therefore, the era of ASEAN free trade should be welcomed by the world of education quickly, so that the human resources (HR) of Indonesia, especially by women who still have low resource. They should be prepared for facing an intense competition with other countries.  ASEAN countries have considered synchronizing the certification standards, streng thening, and improving the skills and knowledge of ASEAN youth and women in the regional integration process. Therefore, ASEAN countries have always been active in encouraging cooperative relations in various levels of education and training, at the same t ime encouraging all organizations and schools in each country to seek cooperation partners in other countries of the ASEAN region. 

PERUBAHAN MINDSET MENGAJAR DALAM MENYIAPKAN PENDIDIK YANG PROFESIONAL DALAM PERSAINGAN DI ERA MEA

KEBERLANJUTAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
ROMENAH ROMENAH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Community ◽  
National Education ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
The Times ◽  
Agent Of Change

AbstractThe National Education System has grown so rapidly over time. A variety of efforts have been made to build every prosperous, dignified Indonesian human being, so that the quality of Indonesian thinking is progressing. The ASEAN Economic Community which has been launched since 2015 has resulted in free competition, both in trade, employment, and there is free competition for educators in ASEAN countries. Besides that, Indonesian education is faced with challenges and developments in the times, where the culture between ASEAN countries has no limits, this is the challenge faced when implementing the Asean Economic Comunity (ASEAN Economic Community) MEA. Indonesia as a country in the ASEAN region must prepare domestic educators to have professionalism and character so that they can compete with the AEC. Educators must be aware of the essence of the existence of their profession, continue to struggle to make changes in order to realize professionalism with noble character. Efforts made in preparing professional educators to face the challenges of the AEC must touch the most fundamental aspects of changing their competencies, namely the mindset. A student must be more advanced and innovative in developing his learning so that he can change the mindset of students to do agent of change. Through this mindset educators will become professional and characterized so that they can compete and compete in the MEA era. Keywords: MEA, Changes in Mindset, Professional Educators

Didattica delle lingue in prospettiva interculturale: innovazione e potenzialità

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Manuela Derosas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Vast Literature ◽  
The Creation

Since the early ’80s the adjective "intercultural" in language learning and teaching has seemed to acquire a remarkable importance, although its meaning is strongly debated. As a matter of fact, despite the existence of a vast literature on this topic, difficulties arise when applying it in the classroom. The aim of this work is to analyze the elements we consider to be the central pillars in this methodology, i.e. a renewed language-and culture relation, the Intercultural Communicative Competence, the intercultural speaker. These factors allow us to consider this as a new paradigm in language education; furthermore, they foster the creation of new potentialities and configure the classroom as a significant learning environment towards the discovery of Otherness.

scholarly journals Revitalisasi Pendidikan Bahasa Arab Berbasis Pendidikan Life Skill Pada Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Arab Di Iain Tulungagung Dalam Menghadapi Masyarakat Ekonomi Asean (MEA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29
Author(s):  
Adi Marsono
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
The Times

The background of this research is that the emergence of the revitalization of education become the talk very interesting and crucial entered the times of the ASEAN Economic Community (MEA) recently. Seeing the condition of a nation that increasingly worse with a variety of educational failure phenomena occurring generation of people. At the regional level (ASEAN), Arabic is the language of the second alternative communication after the Malay language. Since Arabic is the language of the religious culture of the Islamic community of Malay and Arabic language turns more dominant than in English. This is because the majority of the people of ASEAN are Muslims who think that the Arabic language is flexible, open and elastic in answering the challenges of globalization and cultural transformation. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung is one of the universities which have policies, matakuliah, environment and curriculum that supports the education of Arabic-based life skill education in the ASEAN Economic Community mengahadapi (MEA). The method used in this research are : the type of research is qualitative descriptive. Methods of data collection are observation, interview, documentation. Methods of data analysis are reduction, data display and then drawing conclusions / verification.The results of this research are : 1) the revitalization of the Arabic language education based life skills education at State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung in the ASEAN Economic Community (MEA) is conducted by: a) To formulate vision and mission that suppor Competence Life Skills Arabic, b) Develop curriculum a greater emphasis on deepening the Arabic language skills competence, c) Establishing Bi'ah Lughawiyah Arabic language in Campus and Ma'had, d) Create a special program of learning the Arabic language, e) Mastery learning strategies and Arabic language skills, f) Lecturer Professional and have optimum competence, g) Provide additional extra-based Life Skills, and h) To sharpen the practical and Delivers Native speakers. 2) The implications of life skill education to the Arabic language education at State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung for facing the ASEAN Economic Community, the following: a) Linking the use of language in context, b) Lecturer more frequent use of the media, c) Institutions must make improvements in particular, d) Optimization Arabic Education management, and e) Overcoming the obstacles faced.

scholarly journals Implementing Critical Thinking Tasks to Fostering English Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence in a Genre-based Learning Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando Gómez-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Deep Culture

The development of intercultural communicative competence in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) education in many countries is still a difficult goal to achieve. EFL teachers and learners require more tangible and concrete methodological approaches to foster this important competence in the classroom. Therefore, this reflection article aims at proposing the use of genre-based learning as a significant communicative language approach to foster English learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC) through a Sequence of Critical Thinking Tasks. Through two samples of genres, the article explains how the skills of discovery, of interpreting, and of relating, contained in the concept of ICC, can be articulated, complemented, and enhanced gradually through a set of more specific Critical Thinking Tasks. These mental skills can be useful to help learners understand, discover, interpret, and evaluate critically elements of deep culture that appear in different documents, genres, or texts produced by English-spoken cultures, other language communities, and learners’ own culture. Doing critical thinking tasks through genre-based approach can constitute a preliminary but significant step to enhance English learners’ critical intercultural awareness in EFL learning environments.

scholarly journals The ASEAN WITHOUT A CUSTOMS UNION OR A SINGLE MARKET CONSEQUENCES OF THE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY BLUEPRINT 2025

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-127
Author(s):  
Moh Firstananto Jerusalem
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community

Abstract In the ASEAN Economic Community blueprint 2015 the term “single market” was used as a goal of economic community. Theoretically, single market is a level of economic integration after customs union. Under that blueprint, customs union could have a chance to be established as a necessary prerequisite for single market. However, the new blueprint 2025 does not adopt single market concept anymore. Different terms have been introduced namely “integrated and cohesive economy” and “unified market”. This article aims at assessing economic integration concept adopted in the ASEAN Economic Community blueprint by utilizing content analysis. It will review the change of concept by employing economic integration theory in order to indicate the direction of economic community goal. The finding is that the change of terms reflects the change of concept. As a result, ASEAN Economic Community will have a different direction in pursuing economic integration. Therefore, under the new blueprint ASEAN will not proceed to customs union and single market. However, it will remain at free trade area level of economic integration. In addition, ASEAN will not be a close trade block but tend to be an open regionalism in relation to non-ASEAN countries or regions. Keywords: ASEAN Economic Community, Customs Union, Single Market, Economic Integration, Open Regionalism.

scholarly journals A Text-Driven, Task-Based Approach to the Design of Materials for Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
John Harper
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Materials Design ◽  
Teacher Preparedness ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Materials Used

<p>Although a large body of research points to the need of providing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with intercultural communicative competence (ICC), questions remain as to exactly how ICC should be incorporated into the EFL curriculum. These questions arise in part due to issues of already-packed curricula which seem not to leave time for the teaching of ICC and in part due to issues of teacher preparedness. Additionally, questions arise concerning which culture should be taught. Taking into account materials used in the English Language Center (ELC) of Shantou University (Guangdong Province, China), this paper argues that a text-driven, task-based method of materials design allows for the inclusion of ICC across the EFL curriculum. It also argues that such a method lends itself to the teaching of ICC through a consideration of a variety of cultures.</p>

IS THE �ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY� UNDERSIEGE? The New Trajectory of the Asean Economic Community the two Mega- Regional Agreements; �RCEP� and �TPP�

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Indra Kusumawardhana ◽  
Jeremiah Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Great Achievement ◽  
Regional Agreements ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ◽  
Use Dependency

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was signed by the leading nations of Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur on 31, December 2015. This was a great achievement of regional integration, pointing members of the AEC towards a single market awakening. Despite this tremendous progress, the reality is that ASEAN members are now involved in two mega-regional agreements. One, which has the potential to protect ASEAN centrality, ASEAN+6 or the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP); and the other, the US-ledTrans-Pacific-Partnership Agreement. This participation by ASEAN members with various economic partners outside ASEAN may result in dependency to global capitalism networks.Departing from the above mentioned context, the core question then arises: Has the global economic structure provide an opportune precondition for the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)? To tackle this question, this essay will use Dependency Theory to analyze the global economicstructures which encase the AECs regional economic integration agenda and to reveal the ASEAN members dependence on global capitalism. This essay explores both the attempts of the ASEAN framework to create a comprehensive economic community; and the consequences of ASEAN integration with two mega-regional agreements in the region. It is argued that the dependency of ASEAN members on the structure of the global economy proves that it does not provide a proper pre-conditioning for the AEC to be implemented. Moreover, it will be hegemonic factors that challenge the existence of the AEC.

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