language teaching
Intercultural Competence in FLT
Key Concepts
Cultural knowledge is a collection of facts about the products, practices, and perspectives associated with a given culture. It forms an essential foundation for the development of ICC, but teaching culture as content does not guarantee that ICC will develop.
Cross-cultural experiences are opportunities to engage with members of other cultures and particularly speakers of other languages, through face-to-face encounters, online interaction, media, texts, etc.
Intercultural awareness means that an individual can recognize a cultural boundary and perhaps identify the role of culture when interpreting others’ beliefs and practices.
Intercultural competence involves an extensive set of attitudes and skills that allow individuals, especially language learners, to behave and adjust appropriately when interacting across cultural boundaries and to increase their awareness, skills, and ability to interact appropriately by learning from cross-cultural encounters.
Council of Europe CEFR Resources for Intercultural education (coe.int)
FLT 815 Teaching Culture in Language Courses
Designing Intercultural Activities
Designing Intercultural Activities
A guide for identifying the intercultural potential of topics you teach and building communicative lessons around them.
Instructor Resources for Intercultural Competence
Created by Amanda for public sharing:
Interactive Protocols
Role Plays, Interviews, Debates, and Online Exchanges
Interactive Protocols for Intercultural Language Teaching | hc:41263 | Humanities CORE (msu.edu)
Intercultural Attitude Adjustments
11 Statements for Language Learners to Think Through
The KASE Rubric for Intercultural Reflection and Evaluation of Growth
Try out my Group Reflection tasks using the KASE rubric. These activities were designed for Extempore (extemporeapp.com) and shared during Extempore Extravaganza 2023:
https://store.extemporeapp.com/n/134f72f2-67d3-4e87-b693-0f9d2bb08c1b
MANY many more resources in these collections:
Presentations on ICC
Reaching Intercultural Competence with Story-Based Methods
(Teaching ICC through CI)
Language Shock and Language Socialization:
Developing Skills Here that Support Learning There
