Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo comunicación intercultural

Resumen:

Some challenges to intercultural communication prevent intercultural interactions altogether, while others can prevent effective and successful communication during an intercultural exchange. This article addresses a key challenge within intercultural interactions: cultural meaning-making. This is a process that requires both communicative and intercultural competence and encompasses the interdependent and ever-present relationships between language, culture, and worldviews. Considering the important role of language teachers in second language (L2) learners? cultural meaning-making development in challenging interactions that may be faced by learners in the target language community, the current pilot study elicits teachers? perceptions of linguistic and cultural resources required by their students to engage in challenging...

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