Communicating Finnish Quietude: A Pedagogical Process for Discovering Implicit Cultural Meanings in Languages

This paper introduces a pedagogical approach to integrating intercultural communication into language learning. The focus is on the development of competence in discovering and interpreting cultural meanings when communicating in English as an international language. The analyses of data which students produced illustrates how discovering implicit cultural meanings embedded in Finnish, about quietude, presents considerable challenges for communicating those meanings through another language.