scholarly journals Raising Learnersa Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Teaching

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Habinakova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching

Development of professional intercultural foreign language communicative competence of students of “Agricultural Engineering” programme in the conditions of content and language integrated learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Baydikova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Ability And Willingness

The work is devoted to determining the purpose of professional foreign language teaching to students of an agrarian university in the conditions of content and language integrated learning. Based on the study of the history of the issue of determining the purpose of foreign language teaching at different stages, it was concluded that the main result of teaching should be the development of students’ professional intercultural foreign language communicative competence. This type of competence in work is understood as the ability and willingness of agrarian university students to use a foreign language as a mean of professional communication with representatives of different countries and cultures, taking into account the specifics of intercultural interaction, as well as a mean of cognition and professional development. Structurally, intercultural professional foreign language communicative competence includes three blocks: professional, intercultural, and foreign language communicative. Foreign language communicative competence represents the ability and willingness of students to use a foreign language as a mean of communication, cognition and development. It will reflect the professional orientation of teaching and include linguistic, speech, sociocultural, strategic and educational-cognitive components. Intercultural competence represents the ability and willingness to interact with representatives of different countries and cultures, aimed at establishing professional intercultural contacts, resolving conflict situations in the field of intercultural communication, and achieving the goals of intercultural interaction. All these three blocks of professional intercultural foreign language communicative competence exist separately only for descriptive purposes and are in close interconnection with each other. We also consider professional foreign language communicative competence as a level category consisting of value-motivational, cognitive, communicative and reflective components. Each of the components is described in detail.

scholarly journals Student interest in cultural content of a foreign country

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Katarina Krželj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Target Culture

The paper presents results of a study on the interest of students of non-philological faculties (of universities in Serbia) in contents from foreign cultures and how high importance students attach to learning about the target culture in foreign language teaching and learning at non-philological faculties. The goal of modern foreign language teaching at non-philological faculties, in addition to the development of communicative competence in the profession, is also to develop pluricultural competence. In order to test the chances of attaining this goal, it is necessary to perform an analysis of the legislative framework in which teaching foreign languages for special purposes takes place, an analysis of learning aims and the possibility of developing cross-cultural sensitization. An analysis of the needs for and interests in the contents of the target culture must be precededed by an analysis of the specificities of intercultural learning and intercultural competence. Based on these results, it is possible to establish the correlation between the elements of the culture already present in the existing teaching material and the interests and needs of the target group which these materials are intended for.The data thus obtained will serve as a basis for defining the guidelines for selecting contents of the target culture, which, on one hand, will be based on methodological and didactical principles of interculturally oriented foreign language teaching, and on the other hand, will reflect the real needs and interests of the students from a number of non-philological faculties.

scholarly journals MODERN METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION A COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Ольга Комар
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Communicative Approach

The article highlights the changes in the methodology of teaching English. The communicative approach to language teaching in the context of integration and globalization, its basic methods and tools have been considered. New opportunities for ensuring future specialists' communicative and intercultural competence have been described. The concept of edutainment as a new format of communicative direction in foreign language teaching, project method, mobile learning and modular method of teaching and learning English have been analyzed. It was also determined that the communicative approach helps students to take part in discussions and to overcome the language barrier. It aims to enhance foreign language teaching by means of teachers and students interaction based on linguistic theory and communicative methodology of language teaching. The article outlines the importance of information sources of a foreign language that expand capacities and quality of education as well as form efficient education process and activities of teachers and students. The article analyzes experimental results on application of communicative methodology in teaching students. It deals with the problem of learning process modernization with applying communicative methodology and communication in e-teaching. This is seen as an important condition for integration into international environment. The article discusses the advantages of education and innovative technology in comparison with traditional forms of training. The results of the study show that the use of innovative teaching methods and tools expands opportunities and improves the quality of education.

scholarly journals Integrated Components of Intercultural Competence in English Language Teaching at College: Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Muh Hesan ◽  
Slamet Setiawan ◽  
Ahmad Munir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
College Level ◽  
Intercultural Integration

In this global world, foreign language teaching has been demanded to be intercultural teaching which means that cultural teaching should be integrated in language teaching as well as language competence, in English language teaching for instance. On the ground that the importance of foreign language teaching and learning is largely for purpose of international communication, and intercultural knowledge has crucial role in successful communication. Therefore, this paper reports on a qualitative case study which investigates two English teachers’ practice of integrating intercultural competence in English language teaching at college level. Specifically, this paper provides analysis of intercultural components embedded in teachers’ practice of intercultural integration in teaching English. The data were collected through observation, and unstructured observational notes were employed. The observational data were analysed following sub-processes, are familiarizing, reducing, identifying and classifying, interpreting, and presenting. The result indicates that both English teachers’ understand the objective of English language teaching that teaching language is also teaching the culture as it is showed in their teaching process an intercultural integration, which includes some intercultural components such as attitudes, knowledge, and skills.

scholarly journals Te weinig aandacht voor cultuur in Nederlandse en Vlaamse tekstboeken Nederlands voor anderstaligen?

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Robert de Louw ◽  
Mikołaj Buczak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Outer Layer ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Inherent Part

It is generally acknowledged that culture and intercultural competence should be an inherent part of the foreign language teaching process. There is, however, no consensus as to the form and extent to which they should be incorporated not only into curricula but also coursebooks. By using Hofstede’s “Onion Diagram”, this paper looks at four coursebooks for Dutch as a foreign language and zooms in on the topic of “eating and drinking” to determine their (inter)cultural content. The results show that the focus in these coursebooks is on the symbols, i.e. the outer layer of the diagram. The authors of the paper offer explanations, some critical remarks and pedagogical implications, and call for a comparative approach to teaching culture and intercultural competence.

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