scholarly journals Intercultural Communicative Competence and English for Academic Purposes: A Synthesis Review of the Scholarly Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Roy Douglas ◽  
Mark Rosvold
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Programs Of Study

With increasing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds enrolling in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, understanding intercultural communicative competence can contribute to developing effective EAP pathways to higher education. This review of the literature was carried out to synthesize and uncover emerging themes related to intercultural communicative competence and EAP over a 20-year period from 1996 to 2016. A careful search found 15 scholarly works related to this topic. Papers were coded and analyzed for their key findings to reveal eight major themes: miscommunication, ethnocentrism, acculturation, awareness, ethnorelativism, identity, teaching and learning, and academic success. The scant literature related to the topic points to the need for further research. However, the findings do indicate how EAP practitioners can move away from ethnocentric perceptions and programs of study fixed on acculturation toward ethnorelative understandings and EAP classrooms that support intercultural awareness for both teachers and students.

Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-261
Author(s):  
Soe Marlar Lwin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistically Diverse Learners

This chapter introduces discourse analysis as a sub-discipline of linguistics. Relevant concepts from pragmatics, another closely-related sub-discipline, are also discussed within the context of discourse analysis. The chapter begins by explaining the relationship between pragmatics and discourse analysis, and key terms such as “text” and “discourse.” It then examines the distinctions between linguistic and non-linguistic contexts, and situational and sociocultural contexts. To help readers understand the importance of culture in using language to make meanings, the introduced concepts are illustrated with sample authentic texts as well as examples from English and a few other languages. Placing discourse at the core of language teaching and learning, the chapter recommends a discourse-based approach to help ELLs develop not only communicative competence but also intercultural communicative competence. The chapter provides ESOL teachers with knowledge of discourse analysis and the implications of this knowledge for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse learners of English.

scholarly journals Teen Culture, Technology and Literacy Instruction: Urban Adolescent Students’ Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Catherine Snow ◽  
Claire White
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Use Of Technology

Modern teens have pervasively integrated new technologies into their lives, and technology has become an important component of teen popular culture. Educators have pointed out the promise of exploiting technology to enhance students’ language and literacy skills and general academic success. However, there is no consensus on the effect of technology on teens, and scant literature is available that incorporates the perspective of urban and linguistically diverse students on the feasibility of applying new technologies in teaching and learning literacy in intact classrooms. This paper reports urban adolescents’ perspectives on the use of technology within teen culture, for learning in general and for literacy instruction in particular. Focus group interviews were conducted among linguistically diverse urban students in grades 6, 7 and 8 in a lower income neighborhood in the Northeastern region of the United States. The major findings of the study were that 1) urban teens primarily and almost exclusively used social media and technology devices for peer socializing, 2) they were interested in using technology to improve their literacy skills, but did not appear to voluntarily or independently integrate technology into learning, and 3) 8th graders were considerably more sophisticated in their use of technology and their suggestions for application of technology to literacy learning than 6th and 7th graders. These findings lead to suggestions for developing effective literacy instruction using new technologies.

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 EXPLORING THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE INTERGRATION IN FOREIGN TEACHING AND LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 199 (06) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Bùi Thị Hương Giang
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence

Hơn 30 năm qua, tiếng Anh đã đóng một vai trò quan trọng như là một ngôn ngữ giao tiếp quốc tế ở Việt Nam. Hiện tại, tiếng Anh được dạy chính thức cho người học ở Việt Nam bắt đầu từ lớp ba. Trước đây, việc dạy và học tiếng Anh thường tập trung vào các chức năng và cách sử dụng của tiếng Anh. Thực tế cho thấy mặc dù thành thạo tiếng Anh nhưng hầu hết sinh viên Việt Nam sau khi tốt nghiệp đại học không thể giao tiếp bằng tiếng Anh hiệu quả với đồng nghiệp từ các nền văn hóa khác nhau. Do đó, mục tiêu của nghiên cứu này là phân tích quan điểm của sinh viên chuyên ngành tiếng Anh năm thứ hai và thứ ba về việc phát triển năng lực liên văn hóa trong dạy và học ngoại ngữ tại Khoa Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Thái Nguyên. Các kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy người học không có đủ thông tin văn hóa và rất hiếm khi hoặc không bao giờ tham gia vào những bàn luận về các giá trị, niềm tin, thái độ và hành vi của những người sống trong các nền văn hóa khác. Rõ ràng, khả năng phát triển năng lực liên văn hóa chưa được khai thác triệt để trong lớp học và dạy ngoại ngữ. Do đó, quá trình dạy và học tiếng Anh cần tập trung mạnh mẽ hơn vào phát triển năng lực liên văn hóa phù hợp với các yêu cầu và mục tiêu giáo dục hiện nay.

Networking-Based Strategies of Intercultural Communicative Competence Development Among Kazakhstani University Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Azamat Akbarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Language Communication

This chapter presents an empirical study of the intercultural communicative competence of students of Kazakhstani universities. The study results indicate that students should develop their cultural knowledge, intercultural receptivity, communication strategies, intercultural awareness etc. A number of issues related to the formation of intercultural competence in the process of teaching foreign-language communication, taking into account the cultural and mental differences of the native speakers, which is a necessary condition for a successful dialogue of cultures are also discussed. The concept of communicative competence in teaching foreign languages stipulates development of students' knowledge, skills and abilities that enable them to join the ethno-cultural values of the country of the studied language and use the foreign language in situations of intercultural understanding and cognition in practice. Conjunction of such knowledge, skills and abilities constitutes communicative competence. Based on the results of the research, proposals are made for the curriculum and teaching of intercultural communication and methods of developing intercultural communicative competence of students of Kazakhstan universities in a networked environment.

scholarly journals The Use of a Blog for the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence: the case of Tunisian and American Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Nadia Abid ◽  
Asma Moalla ◽  
Iraj Omidvar
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
American Students ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Students Satisfaction

This paper is a report on a three-month telecollaboration between two groups of students studying in ISEAH of Sbeitla in Tunisia and SPSU, Atlanta, GA, in the USA. By bringing together students from two culturally and linguistically different environments, the telecollaboration aims at helping them communicate interculturally and raise their intercultural awareness and understanding. By means of a blog, students exchanged, discussed, and compared information about their cultures in the form of stories of which they are the main characters. The telecollaboration was evaluated by means of a questionnaire inquiring about students’ satisfaction with the use of the blog, the knowledge they gained of the foreign culture, their attitudes toward it, and the intercultural communicative skills acquired. The findings revealed participants’ satisfaction with the use of the blog as a means of communication and intercultural learning. It was also found out that students’ development of intercultural communicative competence manifested in their knowledge of the other culture and people, a change in their attitudes towards them, an ability to communicate with culturally different people, and an increased awareness of themselves and the other group.

scholarly journals TEACHING IN CLOUDS: USING THE G SUITE FOR EDUCATION FOR THE DELIVERY OF TWO ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES COURSES

2018 ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elis Kakoulli Constantinou
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

Being one of the most important and influential advancements in information technology since the emergence of the Internet, cloud computing has invaded the area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), among other fields, due to its flexibility, availability, practicality and cost effectiveness. In 2006 Google developed its Apps for Education, currently referred to as “G Suite for Education”, that provide teachers and students with access to different tools, such as Classroom, Mail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, etc., each serving different educational purposes. This paper reports on a research study conducted at the Cyprus University of Technology Language Centre in Fall 2016, in the context of two blended English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses for first-year students of the Departments of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science and Commerce, Finance and Shipping, which are based on social constructivist approaches with elements of connectivism and student-centered teaching methods. The study aimed at eliciting data on the students’ views regarding the ease of use of G Suite for Education tools, difficulties encountered during their use, and their efficiency in the teaching and learning process. Data was obtained through an online questionnaire, consisting of Likert scale and open-ended questions, administered to the students at the end of the semester. Findings illustrate that students viewed the use of G Suite for Education tools in their EAP courses very positively, both in terms of ease of use and efficiency in the learning and teaching process, encountering only minor difficulties during their use.

scholarly journals Learning and knowledge technologies in the content language integrated learning for the development of intercultural communicative competence

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 562-577
Author(s):  
Leidy Dayan Perlaza Torres ◽  
Adela Macias Molina ◽  
Gonzalo Romero Martínez
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
English Students

This article focuses on the incidence of learning knowledge technologies and the content learning integrated language approach in the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). ICC is considered a relevant competence for the 21st century in the process of teaching and learning foreign languages and the integral development of students. This research arose from the need to complement the development of communicative skills in English students from the UCEVA Language Department of the municipality of Tulua. With the aim of developing intercultural competence in 32 students of English level 2 of Teens and Adults programs. In order to promote the recognition, respect, and acceptance of cultural diversity and the enrichment of cultural identity through interaction, and socialization with others in different situations and contexts. To carry out this quantitative study, with a quasi-experimental design, the “ICC skill to 21st-century” test was applied as a pre-test and post-test to identify and evaluate the level of development of intercultural communicative competence in the participants. Also, the didactic unit “Beyond my thoughts” framed in the use of LKT tools and the CLIL approach was implemented and the descriptive frequency and independent samples techniques of the SPSS v.20 were used to analyze the data obtained. As a result, the statistical analysis showed that there were no significant incidents in the development of intercultural communicative competence, therefore the null hypothesis was accepted. While the descriptive results reflected that the implementation of the didactic unit generated an impact on the development of this 21st-century skill given that intercultural communicative competence involves both the dimensions of people and those experiences that they live. Therefore, its evaluation is not limited to tests but to the analysis and reflection that students make of their process sequentially when facing their reality.  

Teachers’ beliefs and students’ experiences

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Jana Beresova
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Choice Response ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Response Formats ◽  
Teachers Beliefs

The article is based on the preliminary results of an ongoing research project that seeks to explore intercultural communicative competence of language teachers and university students. The article reports teachers’ beliefs and students’ experiences concerning intercultural communicative competence teaching and learning, gained by means of questionnaires. As Likert-type scales use fixed choice response formats and are designed to measure attitudes and opinions, they were used in the measurement of students’ statements that were asked to be evaluated in a survey, carried out in three different periods (steps). Teachers’ beliefs result from a long questionnaire, focused on data about how teachers perceive the cultural dimension of English language teaching and learning. The conclusions are based on data collected in a five-year study that need further investigation in the currently run project. Several recommendations for pre-service and in-service teacher training are commented on in the end.   Keywords: teaching English, learning English, acquiring target culture, intercultural communicative competence.

Talking about culturally responsive approaches to education: teacher professional learning, Indigenous learners and the politics of schooling

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Michelle Bishop ◽  
Greg Vass
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Teacher Professional Learning ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Settler Society ◽  
Indigenous Learners

Abstract Culturally responsive approaches to schooling (CRS) aim to address pervasive inequities that exist in education. More specifically, CRS practices seek to improve the experiences and academic achievements of marginalised and minoritised learners, such as those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. In this paper, we consider the possibilities for CRS in the context of Australia where Indigenous students (along with their parents, peers and teachers) are consistently reminded, courtesy of the deficit government policies and ‘close the gap’ rhetoric, that they have the worst educational outcomes of any settler society. This paper does not seek to offer fixed solutions in response to this. Rather, based on shared experience researching and teaching together that draw on CRS, the paper foregrounds a collaborative culturally responsive dialogue between the authors. Together we discuss, deliberate and despair about the state of the education system for Indigenous students, we also remain tentatively hopeful about how CRS might become embedded in teaching and learning, through teacher professional learning, in ways that are relevant to the Australian context.

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