Development of Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence via Creating Their Own Cultures

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jolace-2022-0006" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jolace-2022-0006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2022-0006" target="_blank" >10.2478/jolace-2022-0006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Development of Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence via Creating Their Own Cultures

Original language description

One of the long-term aims of the European Union is to incorporate intercultural education into lessons in foreign languages. However, studies have shown that teachers of foreign languages often do not know what intercultural teaching involves and are themselves not interculturally competent. The aim of an elective course Intercultural training in a teacher training study program is to develop students&apos; intercultural communicative competences (ICC) and to teach them various teaching techniques and activities for the development of ICC. An activity for this intervention is called Aliens, where students were creating their planets (cultures) with sociocultural and historical foundations and sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of their newly developed cultures. Four lessons focused on intercultural topics such as greetings, addressing, non-verbal communication, small talk, punctuality, diversity, etc. were conducted before the intervention. The main aim of this intervention was to develop intercultural communicative competences (awareness, sociocultural knowledge, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences) and positive attitudes towards difference and respect for other cultures. The intervention was conducted via four-step action research and it was evaluated as very successful, as students were able to reflect on their own and other cultures, and showed open-mindedness, curiosity, and acceptance toward foreign cultures.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of language and cultural education

ISSN

1339-4045

e-ISSN

1339-4584

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

61-69

UT code for WoS article

000941624900006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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