scholarly journals Towards a unified, socio-cognitive approach to language-mediated intercultural competence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariadna Strugielska ◽  
Katarzyna Piątkowska
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Do So

Towards a unified, socio-cognitive approach to language-mediated intercultural competenceVery few intercultural competence (IC) models include language, and those that do so portray the notion in an inconsonant manner. Nonetheless, research shows that language assures successful intercultural communication. Thus, this article stresses the need for a unified socio-cognitive approach which will introduce common and solid foundations for the role and nature of both language and IC. The article demonstrates that such an integrated framework, built on a reappraised notion of language, helps to overcome numerous dichotomies within IC models and leads to the emergence of a unified approach to language-mediated IC. W kierunku ujednoliconego, socjo-kognitywnego podejścia do kompetencji interkulturowej opartego na językuNieliczne modele kompetencji interkulturowej (ang. IC) uwzględniają język, a te, które to robią, przedstawiają to pojęcie w niekonsekwentny sposób. Jednak badania pokazują, że język jest gwarantem efektywnej komunikacji interkulturowej. Niniejszy artykuł podkreśla potrzebę ujednoliconego podejścia socjo-kognitywnego, które oparte jest na wspólnych podstawach łączących rolę i naturę zarówno języka, jak i kompetencji interkulturowej. W artykule wykazujemy, że takie zintegrowane podejście, zbudowane na przeformułowanej koncepcji języka, pomaga przezwyciężyć liczne dychotomie w modelach kompetencji interkulturowej i prowadzi do powstania jednolitego podejścia do kompetencji interkulturowej opartej na języku.

scholarly journals Culture and complexity through English as a lingua franca: rethinking competences and pedagogy in ELT

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Baker
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Meaningful Category

AbstractEnglish as a lingua franca (ELF) research highlights the complexity and fluidity of culture in intercultural communication through English. ELF users draw on, construct, and move between global, national, and local orientations towards cultural characterisations. Thus, the relationship between language and culture is best approached as situated and emergent. However, this has challenged previous representations of culture, particularly those centred predominantly on nation states, which are prevalent in English language teaching (ELT) practices and the associated conceptions of communicative and intercultural communicative competence. Two key questions which are then brought to the fore are: how are we to best understand such multifarious characterisations of culture in intercultural communication through ELF and what implications, if any, does this have for ELT and the teaching of culture in language teaching? In relation to the first question, this paper will discuss how complexity theory offers a framework for understanding culture as a constantly changing but nonetheless meaningful category in ELF research, whilst avoiding essentialism and reductionism. This underpins the response to the second question, whereby any formulations of intercultural competence offered as an aim in language pedagogy must also eschew these simplistic and essentialist cultural characterisations. Furthermore, the manner of simplification prevalent in approaches to culture in the ELT language classroom will be critically questioned. It will be argued that such simplification easily leads into essentialist representations of language and culture in ELT and an over representation of “Anglophone cultures.” The paper will conclude with a number of suggestions and examples for how such complex understandings of culture and language through ELF can be meaningfully incorporated into pedagogic practice.

scholarly journals Representation of the image of Russia and Central Europe in the British press. The impact of media on intercultural communication in global context

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 10010
Author(s):  
Silvia Polakova ◽  
Jozef Bruk ◽  
Lenka Môcova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Impact

Research background: Twenty-first century’s sees strong globalization trends in which mass media play crucial role in shaping public opinion which might saliently impact intercultural communication on the international level. Purpose of the article: This paper focuses on the representation of the image of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe in the British press and, besides, it sets out the role of stereotyping in intercultural communication. The article writers assume that the stereotypes play pivotal role in image shaping of a country in the media. Above all, the most efficient way to not stereotype is a straightforward communication of the participants alongside with the knowledge of the participant’s background, i. e. cultural knowledge. Drawing on the information from the British press, Russia, Central as well as Eastern Europe appears not solely as a geographical region. On the contrary, despite the fast economic, social and political development, its image abroad is still predominantly negative. Methods: The paper, in conjunction with the cultural linguistics and cognitive approach, reveals the range of metaphorical expressions, in particular cognitive aspect of metaphors used by British journalists, which, in turn form the image of Russia in the British press. Findings & Value added: The paper suggests that the analysis of the image of country in the mass media might apply to the investigation of images of other countries as well as to comparative studies.

scholarly journals The Lecturer Coach

Linguaculture ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Paul Catteeuw
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Knowledge Component ◽  
Creative Learning ◽  
University College ◽  
Giant Leap ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract Teaching has experienced dramatic changes in the last few decades. From ex cathedra lectures to the use of social media in a classroom is a giant leap for both lecturer and students. Paul Catteeuw, lecturer of intercultural communication at Charlemagne University College in Antwerp (Belgium), has explored the boundaries of the newest methods in competence teaching, but did not forget the knowledge component of the tuition process. As he developed a framework of intercultural competence for business students, he rethought his role as a lecturer. He moved from the central omniscient rostrum position to a place at the side of the classroom as a facilitator, coaching students in a new creative learning environment making use of activating learning forms such as zoom sessions, teamwork and many others. At the same time he introduced different forms of assessment. In this article Catteeuw describes the intensive, sometimes laborious process of the lecturer coach.

Discourse Analysis for Intercultural Competence Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

This article aims to explicate the connection between discourse analysis and interculturality in intercultural-communication education. Although communication researchers and students have been using discourse analysis as a method to investigate conversations in intercultural situations for decades, interculturality as a concept has been largely untapped in analysis and applications. Drawing from interdisciplinary insights, this article will discuss how the concept of interculturality and the lens of discourse analysis contribute to the study and teaching of intercultural communication. As examples, two different types of intercultural-communication courses serve to illustrate how educators can apply discourse analysis to facilitate development of intercultural competence. Learning outcomes of the two tested courses indicate that cultural discourse analysis, along with critical discourse analysis and ethnography of speaking, promises to be a useful pedagogical approach for facilitating the development of the competence required for dealing with interculturality.

Simulation Rhetoric and Activity Theory: Experiential Learning in Intercultural Simulations

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Theoretical Understanding

In the field of intercultural business and technical communication, intercultural communication has been a regular topic in curriculum for decades; various teaching approaches exist for developing students’ cultural awareness and helping them achieve a theoretical understanding about the concept of culture, cultural differences, and cultural conflict. But quite often teaching and learning are limited in the classroom context, although it is true that study abroad programs are available for a small group of students. As a result, students do not have enough opportunities to interact with members of other cultures, which limits students’ potentials for gaining intercultural competence. This study explores the rhetorical nature of simulations, defines the perspective of using activity theory as a framework to understand the learning process occurring in simulations, and provides an intercultural simulation example to explain how instructors can incorporate simulations into the business and technical communication curriculum.

Theoretical and practical considerations in the design of an intercultural communication course

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-191
Author(s):  
Teresa Yi-jung Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Backward Design ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Active And Collaborative Learning

Abstract The aim of this article is to highlight theoretical and practical considerations in design of an intercultural communication course. The first part of the article considers intercultural competence, and uses Bourdieu’s notions of education to frame the design of an intercultural communication course. This is followed by discussion of general principles of intercultural course design; the concepts of backward design and constructive alignment as they relate to an intercultural communication course; and finally, the importance of including active and collaborative learning/teaching activities within course design. The remainder of the article draws on a case study of an existing Australian undergraduate course in intercultural communication to highlight how this course may be redesigned in line with the pedagogical principles discussed in the first part of the article.

scholarly journals Bilingual practices as a means of intercultural communication under the globalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00106
Author(s):  
Olga Tomyuk ◽  
Margarita Dyachkova ◽  
Anna Shutaleva ◽  
Anastasia Novgorodtseva ◽  
Andrei Dudchik
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Communicative Activities ◽  
The University

The article is devoted to the problem of intercultural communication and identifying the significance of bilingual practices in the context of globalization. A review of the research on this issue proposes to consider bilingual practices as a means of intercultural communication. A review of the research on this issue proposes to consider bilingual practices as a means of intercultural communication. It is proved that the basis of bilingual practices of students of the university is social action. The results of a theoretical analysis of the problem and practical activities in this area confirm the possibility of designing bilingual practices as an effective means of intercultural communication. The novelty of the research consists in substantiating the potential of bilingual practices for solving intercultural communications that are significant for students of the university. The bases of this study performed on the methodological foundations of the activity and socio-cultural approaches. The results of the inclusion of bilingual practices as educational and extracurricular events in the communicative activities of students through training on the educational programs of the university, organization of project activities aimed at developing their intercultural competence are formulated

scholarly journals Razvijanje interkulturalne kompetencije u ranom i predškolskom odgoju i obrazovanju

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Vesna Bedeković ◽  
Marija Šimić
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Mutual Correlation ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Education Process

Meetings of different cultures in today's global multicultural society are occurring almost every moment in the most diverse forms of communication. Intercultural communication due to an increased interdependence between people of different cultures, religions, languages and world view becomes a reality of everyday life, where encounters culture imply the necessity of quality mutual correlation based on the idea of interculturalism. Given that childhood is considered an extremely important period of human life, 18 institutions of early and preschool upbringing and education are the places of the first formal outbound socialization and the earliest institutional transfer of socially accepted norms and values, as well as the places where the forms of intercultural relations are applied in society. This paper gives an overview of the results of empirical research aimed at determining the level of basic knowledge in the field of interculturalism and examining the desirable intercultural competence of the educators, and the effectiveness of intercultural action in the early and preschool upbringing and education process.

scholarly journals Komunikacja międzykulturowa jako pomost ku integracji społecznej w środowisku wielokulturowym

1970 ◽  
pp. 401-413
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Bogucka
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Contact Hypothesis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Multicultural Environment

The article focuses on intercultural communication, which creates a passage from a multicultural environment towards social integration and intercultural relations. The author introduces the topic by short characteristics of changes in the modern world, determined by social mobility and multiculturalism. The article presents then some chosen aspects of social integration of migrants seen as bilateral process which requires the development of intercultural competences of both migrants’ and the receiving community. The author further describes intercultural communication and stresses its importance for education and social development. Finally, some factors conditioning the acquisition of intercultural competence with reference to Gordon Allport’s contact hypothesis and informational influences are presented along with highlighting the importance of empathy.

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