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Intercultural Competence in Instructed Language Learning: Bridging Theory and Practice

Intercultural Competence in Instructed Language Learning: Bridging Theory and Practice

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Series: Contemporary Language Education

LinguisticsGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1681234173
ISBN13: 9781681234175
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

There is pressure on world language educators to prepare learners with 21st century skills to meet the challenges of an increasingly interconnected globalized world. The need for change was summarized in the 2007 report of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages that suggested the implementation of curricular reform by developing students' translingual and transcultural competence (p. 3) which allows someone to operate between languages (p.237). However, the integration of such a meaningful cultural component in instructed language learning is a complex topic. This book recognizes the difficulty world language educators face to achieve the goals of the MLA report, particularly at beginning levels of instruction in target language use classrooms. Accordingly, this book informs instructed language learning and teaching by bridging developmental theories from the fields of intercultural competence with second language pedagogies--particularly communicative language teaching (CLT) and literacy-based approaches--providing examples of practical applications inside the classroom and beyond. It is intended to support the many FL educators who have consistently reported that they are struggling to incorporate meaningful cultural instruction into their practice (Fox & Diaz-Greenberg 2006; Phillips & Abbott, 2011; Sercu, 2005).

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