Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. Its conclusions are based on data collected in a quantitative comparative study that comprises questionnaire answers received from teachers in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Sweden. It not only creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries, but also gives us a picture that is both more concrete and more comprehensive than previously known.
Table of Content
Foreword/ Preface
1. Teaching Foreign Languages in an Intercultural World – Lies Sercu
2. Objectives of Foreign Language Education and Culture Teaching Time – Paloma Castro and Lies Sercu
3. Familiarity and Contacts with Foreign Cultures – Phyllis Ryan and Lies Sercu
4. Pupils’ Culture-and-language Learning Profile – María del Carmen Méndez García and Lies Sercu
5. Culture Teaching Practices – Ewa Bandura and Lies Sercu
6. Culture in Foreign Language Teaching Materials – Leah Davcheva and Lies Sercu
7. Experiential Culture Learning Activities: School Trips and Exchange Projects – Chryssa Laskaridou and Lies Sercu
8. Opinions Regarding Different Facets of Intercultural Competence Teaching – Lies Sercu
9. The Foreign Language and Intercultural Competence Teacher – Lies Sercu
10. The Future of Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Education: Recommendations for Professional Development, Educational Policy and Research – Lies Sercu
Appendix 1: Questionnaire/ Appendix 2: Bonferroni Multiple Comparison Test Results
About the author
Lies Sercu is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven. Her research interests concern the promotion of intercultural competence through foreign language education as well as SLA vocabulary acquisition from reading and writing texts in a foreign language. She has been involved in the development of language tests and blended learning environments for the professionalisation of language teachers. She has widely published in major international journals on intercultural competence and foreign vocabulary acquisition.
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