scholarly journals Challenges in teaching intercultural communication (ICC) for healthcare students

Porta Lingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bakó ◽  
Barbara Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Healthcare Students ◽  
Health Service Manager ◽  
Service Manager

Including the intercultural aspect in classes can pose great challenges for ESP teachers. First of all, when we try to find the balance between language learning and improving intercultural competence, we may face various problems on how to support both without the two counteracting one another. Furthermore, we must see and acknowledge our competences and responsibilities when teaching communication as ESP teachers. Lastly, we have to be knowledgeable in how to gradually improve intercultural communication among learners with different language proficiency levels. In our paper we aim to find answers to these questions based on our experience in teaching intercultural communication to health service manager students.

scholarly journals Valorizzare la diversità linguistica e culturale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Coppola ◽  
Raffaella Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Experimental Sample ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Fundamental Value

Linguistic and cultural diversity has always been a fundamental value of the European Union. However, today, due to the current profound crisis, it is in danger of being perceived rather as an obstacle to cooperation. The aim of this paper is to take advantage of the diversity that characterises multiethnic classes, promoting plurilingualism and a dialogical approach to language learning-teaching and to intercultural communication. In a case study, the validity of plurilingualism and of cooperative methodologies, also in language testing, is confirmed by the results relating to the linguistic and intercultural competence of an experimental sample of middle school pupils.

Learners of Different Language Proficiency Levels and Incidental Focus on Form in Synchronous Text-Based Discussion

2019 ◽  
pp. 1521-1539
Author(s):  
Wan-Tsai Kung ◽  
Zohreh R. Eslami
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Focus On Form ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Nonnative Speaker ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Computer Mediated

This study examined the effectiveness of incidental focus on form in facilitating second language learning for learners of different proficiency levels in a synchronous computer-mediated communication environment. Sixteen native speaker (NS)-nonnative speaker (NNS) dyads and fourteen NNS-NNS dyads were formed. The participants completed two communicative tasks. Language-related episodes (LRE), mini-dialogues in which learners either explicitly or implicitly ask or talk about language or question their own or/and interlocutors' language use, were identified and used as a basis for individualized tailor-made tests to assess the learners' subsequent learning outcome. The results reveled that in the NS-NNS dyads, no significant difference in the frequency of LREs produced was found between the lower- and higher-proficiency learners whereas in the NNS-NNS dyads, the lower-proficiency learners produced significantly more LREs than their higher-proficiency interlocutors. Additionally, the learners of both proficiency groups interacting with NSs produced significantly more LREs than learners interacting with NNSs. However, no significant differences were found in the test performance of learners of different proficiency levels in either dyadic type.

scholarly journals ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION DURING FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING VIA DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
Vadym Tynnyi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Information And Communication

The article analyzes the essence and content of terms «intercultural communication», «intercultural competence», the ways of efficient foreign language learning through constructing communication knowledge and skills under conditions of intercultural communication through information and communication technology.

scholarly journals Intercultural communication: English dominance

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Natalya Vladimirovna Chernyishkova ◽  
Daria Valerievna Sukhorukova ◽  
Marina Vadimovna Aroshidze
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Intercultural Skills ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
Different Cultures

The importance of intercultural communication in today’s globalised world is undeniable. Scholars from different countries have contributed to the development of this field and created educational materials – textbooks on intercultural communication devoted to classifications and features of different cultures – and textbooks on foreign languages that include exercises devoted to developing intercultural skills in everyday and professional contexts. Teachers of foreign languages are making an effort to use the available materials that provide a wide outlook on various cultures and help students prepare for being a part of intercultural community. However, there is an evident shortage of such materials in languages other than English. The article provides the results of the analysis of online sources that demonstrates that the majority of available resources that are in any way connected with intercultural communication are in English. The article dwells on the reasons for English dominance in intercultural communication study and suggests a global effort as a solution. Whether we are looking at textbooks purely on intercultural communication or foreign language learning resources, it is important to understand that the English language cannot be the only medium of intercultural competence formation – other languages can and should be a prism through which intercultural communication is studied.

‘Ignoring the elephant in the room’: (Under-)representation of impoliteness phenomenon in popular ELT textbooks

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110290
Author(s):  
Hossein Talebzadeh ◽  
Marzieh Khazraie
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Textbook Series ◽  
International English

One of the underrepresented aspects of pragmatic competence development is perceiving and responding to impoliteness acts. The present study reports on a quantitative and qualitative investigation of two international English language teaching (ELT) textbook series published by Oxford and Cambridge University Press; it focuses on the books highly popular among a thriving representative sample of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) across four language proficiency levels and explores their coverage and treatment of impoliteness acts and their responses. Drawing on stringent models and taxonomies, the findings reveal that this unpleasant side of language is ignored and misrepresented in the textbooks, particularly at lower proficiency levels. We draw on our own and others’ previous incivility studies and argue for the inclusion of impoliteness especially from earlier stages of language learning owing to its saliency in authentic interactions. The study concludes with implications and suggestions for language learners, instructors, textbook writers, and researchers.

scholarly journals Learning chinese using digital applications

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
National University

In today's world, language proficiency is a necessity, which is why the introduction of innovative teaching methods, including digital resources, helps to improve the quality of teaching and foreign language proficiency among students. The aim of this study is to determine the level of professors’ familiarity on the oriental languages and intercultural communication department at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University with such online resources as trainchinese, PurpleCulture, GoogleClassroom, to analyze their awareness on the offered online resources and frequency of its introduction into the Chinese teaching process, to find out the correlation between mastering the material, raising interest, increasing students’ academic progress and adopting online resources to education.The experiment involved an anonymous survey (filling out a Google Form) among Chinese language teachers. The results of the study showed that all surveyed teachers are familiar with the functionality of the trainchinese and GoogleClassroom applications, while the PurpleCulture application is familiar to fewer respondents. Therefore, it needs further popularization among teachers and students. Based on the survey, teachers of the Department of Oriental Languages and Intercultural Communication of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University made his own conclusions, which will help to make changes in the curriculum and diversify the process of conducting classes. The article analyzes the works of foreign scientists who studied digital technologies and mobile applications and their introduction into the educational process. The study focuses on learning Chinese using applications and platforms for personal computers, smartphones and tablets, presented on both the Android platform and iOS. It should be noted that the article also contains a detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed online resources, the possibility of their use by students with different levels of Chinese proficiency. The article not only reveals the importance of using online resources, but also demonstrates all aspects of the implementation of digital applications in the educational process. All applications and platforms are recommended for educational programs with Chinese language learning.

scholarly journals Incorporating Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL Classes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Mahdjouba Chaouche
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Language Classrooms

In a rapidly globalized world, EFL teachers are increasingly urged to incorporate intercultural competence in language classes. This paper is concerned with the incorporation of the teaching of culture into the foreign Language classroom. The main premise of the present paper is that effective communication is not limited to linguistic competence and language proficiency and that apart from enhancing communicative competence, cultural competence can also lead to empathy and respect toward different cultures as well as promote objectivity and cultural perspicacity. In fact, teaching a foreign language carries a novel culture which includes one’s religion, gender and a set of beliefs. Yet; though language and culture are so closely interwoven into each other that one cannot be conceived without the other, language is still taught as a separate phenomenon from culture and classroom activities are bereft of any instruction of foreign cultures. It is to be noted that much research into the incorporation of culture in language learning remains to be done so that the pedagogical principles of culture teaching may be articulated and applied effectively to the development of materials, and curricula. Thus, the purpose of this paper is first, to explain the ideas and theory which define what is involved in the intercultural communicative competence, and second, to demonstrate what intercultural competence would mean in practice for teachers and learners in language classrooms in an Algerian context and how to make it easily accessible in practical ways.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES ON COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(78)) ◽  
pp. 188-190
Author(s):  
Olga Gubareva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Modern Computer

The paper deals with the diachronic aspects of communicative competence development and theoretical issues influencing on the most important methods of teaching foreign languages. Foreign language learning and teaching have undergone a significant paradigm shift as a result of the research and experiences which have expended the theoretical fundamental knowledge about the practical ways of teaching students a foreign language. The sociocultural theory is regarded as a key one in the intercultural competence development. Foreign language acquisition has been revealed to be a complex, multidimensional process influenced by both learners and environment variables, so significantly new teacher’s responsibilities have been focused on and the emphasis has been put on the learner-centered teaching methods as the most effective to motivate learners to develop their communicative abilities. In such learning environment the teacher’s role is changed from an authority figure to a facilitator. Special attention has been paid to the modern computer technologies of teaching a foreign language. The use of social media such as FB, Twitter and so on, incorporated in classroom problem-solving tasks introduces a new dimension to the teaching and learning process. Methodologically classroom-oriented research has been considered to improve teaching practices leading to greater language proficiency and success among foreign language learners.

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