Multicultural Language Learning
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Intercultural language learning involves developing awareness of one's own culture and other cultures. The goal is to foster international understanding and cultural tolerance. Developing intercultural awareness as a "fifth skill" means recognizing that cultural perspectives differ. Teachers have an important role in helping students become more aware of other cultures and how to interact respectfully across cultures. Intercultural competence involves skills like observing cultural differences, comparing cultures, and accepting diverse viewpoints.
Multicultural Language Learning
- 1. Intercultural Language Learning Sara Delgado Ester Molina Javier Ávila SWWAN Grundtvig Project
- 2. What do we understand by the word 'culture'? A way of life. A set of social practices. A system of beliefs. A shared history or set of experiences. A culture may be synonymous with a country, or a region, or a nationality or it may cross several countries or regions.
- 3. What is intercultural learning? The process of becoming more aware of and better understanding one's own culture and other cultures around the world. The aim of intercultural learning is to increase international and cross-cultural tolerance and understanding.
- 4. Intercultural awareness 'fifth skill' - the ability to be aware of cultural relativity. Impossibility of SLL without awareness of that culture, and how that culture relates to our own first language/first culture. It is not only therefore essential to have cultural awareness, but also intercultural awareness
- 5. Intercultural communicative competence intercultural awareness is a collection of skills and attitudes better thought of as a competence. Intercultural communicative competence is an attempt to raise students' awareness of their own culture, and in so doing, help them to interpret and understand other cultures.
- 6. Intercultural awareness skills What are these attitudes and skills that make up the competence? Among them are: observing, identifying and recognising comparing and contrasting negotiating meaning dealing with or tolerating ambiguity effectively interpreting messages limiting the possibility of misinterpretation defending one's own point of view while acknowledging the legitimacy of others accepting difference
- 7. How does this affect the role of the teacher? Intercultural learning gives the teacher a role as an educator. Helping them to become more aware of the world around them, and to better interact with that world.
- 8. When should we introduce this? Intercultural awareness, as a fundamental feature of language and an integral part of language learning, is important at all levels
- 9. Interculturally competent students should be able to... look at their own culture from the point of view of their own culture (i.e. have a good understanding and awareness of their own culture) be aware of how their culture is seen from outside, by other countries or cultures understand or see the target culture from its own perspective (i.e. understand and be aware of what other people think of their own culture) be aware of how they see the target culture
- 11. Conclusion to make our job relevant and meaningful, teaching intercultural awareness is absolutely vital. "What am I actually doing?". All teachers have asked themselves that question - here's an answer: helping your students to understand, interact with and - hopefully - change for the better the world we all live in. Given the current global situation, there are few jobs more important than this