Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Language teaching has long been associated with teaching in a country or countries where a target language is spoken, but this approach is inadequate. In the contemporary world, language teaching has a responsibility to prepare learners for interaction with people of other cultural backgrounds, teaching them skills and attitudes as well as knowledge. This article presents the main concepts involved in this view of language teaching: the notion of culture, the language-culture nexus, and intercultural competence. It argues that language teaching needs to be linked to other disciplines in order to develop an approach that integrates insights from citizenship education.

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: competencia intercultural

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Volumen colectivo sobre la dimensión intercultural en la enseñanza de lenguas, con aportaciones de contextos educativos europeos y no europeos.

Los capítulos exploran dos vías metodológicas: el trabajo dramático, como medio de experimentar y descentrar perspectivas culturales, y la etnografía, como procedimiento para observar y analizar tanto la cultura ajena como la propia. Aborda además la formación del hablante intercultural y el problema de evaluar la competencia intercultural.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales

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In this article we argue, in the context of the current dominance of the performative and instrumental drives characterizing the accountable university, that language and intercultural communication education in universities should also be humanistic, addressing ‘discomforting themes’ to sensitize students to issues of human suffering and engage them in constructive and creative responses to that suffering. We suggest that arts-based methods can be used and illustrate this with an intercultural telecollaboration project created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. In this way language and intercultural communication education can become a site of personal and social transformation albeit modest and piecemeal as part of a longer process. Through arts-based methodologies and pedagogies of discomfort, Argentinian and US...

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