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The Performativity of the Intercultural Speaker: Promoting «Savoir Agir» Through Improvisational Tasks

The Performativity of the Intercultural Speaker: Promoting «Savoir Agir» Through Improvisational Tasks

Beecroft, Raphaëlle
Würffel, Nicola

Hardcover

Series: Kfu - Kolloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht, Book 71

Bilingual EducationGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 3631851111
ISBN13: 9783631851111
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 6 2022
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Whilst the promotion of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is described as the main aim of foreign language pedagogy in Germany, its development from a performative-linguistic perspective lacks in research. To address this issue, this book argues that an extension of Byram's model of ICC to encompass a further newly-developed savoir is necessary. Savoir agir makes explicit the interplay of intercultural and communicative competences present in the model and foregrounds its embodiment in ad-hoc oral interaction. Furthermore, the book emphasises the potential of methods derived from Improvisational Theatre for developing savoir agir in the language classroom. The second part of the book presents a longitudinal, two-year mixed-methods action-research study in which improvisational tasks were designed and implemented on a regular basis in four English classes with the aim of promoting savoir agir.

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