What is intercultural communicative competence?
“Awareness, valuing, and understanding of cultural differences; experiencing other cultures and self-awareness of one's own culture” (Deardorff, 2006, p. 247).
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"Knowing about the practices and products of a culture is one thing; being able to reflect on and explain its multiple perspectives from both an insider’s and an outsider’s point of view is quite another” (Want, 2009, p. 285).
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“Through [intercultural] activities, learners look anew at their own community’s behaviour, practices, and values and prepare to explain them to people whose behaviour, practices, and values differ” (Corbett, 2010, p. 2).
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A set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that helps learners navigate interactions with individuals from target-language cultures.
A toolkit that learners build through in-class activities and reflection that they can apply to other cross-cultural experiences. (These cross-cultural experiences can happen in your classroom!)
(FAQ) "Developing the Intercultural Dimension in Language Teaching: A Practical Introduction for Teachers" Byram, Gribkova, & Starkey
NCSSFL-ACTFL 2017 Intercultural Can-Do Statements
ACTFL Intercultural Lesson Examples and Reflection Tool
NCSSFL-ACTFL 2017 Intercultural Can-Do Statements
ACTFL Intercultural Lesson Examples and Reflection Tool
Components of Intercultural Communicative Competence
1. Background Cultural Knowledge
3. Critical Thinking about Culture
and Intercultural Differences:
5. Attitudes:
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2. Skills of Interaction/Pragmatic Competence
4. Skills of Investigation/Discovery:
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