It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
Table of Content
Alison Phipps: Foreword
Michael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens: Introduction
Part 1: In the Classroom
Beginners
1 Carol Morgan: The International Partnership Project
Intermediate
2 Eva Burwitz-Melzer: Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature
3 Elena Tarasheva and Leah Davcheva: ‘Up the Hills of Identity’
Advanced
4 Maria Metodieva Genova: Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts
5 Iskra Georgieva: An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus
6 Sylvia Duffy and Janet Mayes: ‘Family Life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French
7 Mary Williams: ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education
Part 2: Beyond the Classroom
Using New Technologies
8 Lynne Parmenter and Yuichi Tomita: Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students
9 Sheila Carel: Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection
10 Clare Dodd: Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project
11 Paul Whittaker: New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies
In the Field
12 Jane Woodin: Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity
13 Judith Parsons and Peter Junge: ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners
Part 3: Developing Resources
14 Leon Aktor and Karen Risager: Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools
15 Tanya Madjarova, Magdalena Botsmanova and Tanya Stamatova: ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’
16 Krassimira Topuzova: British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students
17 Françoise Vigneron: Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others
Further Reading
Index
About the author
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the Ph D is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.
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