Teaching English as a ―lingua franca‖ to achieve interculturalcommunicative competence
2011
Raising intercultural communicative competence has gained a
central place in many considerations and discussions in the globalized
world. The present paper therefore examines and analyses approaches to
achieving intercultural competence proposed by a number of prominent
authors from the American and European cultural environment, such as
E.T. Hall, Gert Hofstede, R.D. Lewis, Anna Wierzbicka, Elsa Oksaar,
Michael Byram, Manuela Guilhelme. They base their theoretical and
applied methods of teaching, as well as their approaches to raising
intercultural awareness in the intercultural dialogue, while highlighting
slightly different levels of communication, thus also suggesting somewhat
different conclusions. As a consequence two approaches have been
developed: cross-cultural and intercultural communicative approach. We
could say that even considerations about the intercultural dialogue show
signs of cultural conditioning.
Furthermore, the paper deals with the application of such theoretical
premises in the English classroom at the tertiary level. Building on
language teaching methods, the paper suggest ways of extending the theme
to cross-curricular units, since actualization of theoretical insights in the
classroom lends itself nicely to intertwining both a critical cultural
awareness of multilingualism in ones own environment and the
intercultural communicative competence, leading thus to an "intercultural
citizenship".
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