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Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

Dr. Lies Sercu

(2005)

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Abstract

Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. Its conclusions are based on data collected in a quantitative comparative study that comprises questionnaire answers received from teachers in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Sweden. It not only creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries, but also gives us a picture that is both more concrete and more comprehensive than previously known.


The authors of the book are all members of CULTNET, a network of researchers of interculture in foreign language education (http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cultnet). Lies Sercu (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) initiated and coordinated the project on which the book is based. The other project partners were Ewa Bandura (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Paloma Castro (University of Valladolid, Spain), Leah Davcheva (British Council, Bulgaria), Chryssa Laskaridou (Directorate for primary education on Western Thessaloniki, Greece), Ulla Lundgren (Jönköping University, Sweden), María del Carmen Méndez García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Phyllis Ryan (UNAM: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México).


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Contents v
Foreword vii
Preface x
Chapter 1 Teaching Foreign Languages in an Intercultural World 1
Chapter 2 Objectives of Foreign Language Teaching and Culture Teaching Time 19
Chapter 3 Familiarity and Contacts with Foreign Cultures 39
Chapter 4 Pupils’ Culture-and-language Learning Pro.le 50
Chapter 5 Culture Teaching Practices 75
Chapter 6 Culture in Foreign Language Teaching Materials 90
Chapter 7 Experiential Culture Learning Activities: School Trips and Exchange Projects 110
Chapter 8 Opinions Regarding Different Facets of Intercultural Competence Teaching 120
Chapter 9 The Foreign Language andIntercultural Competence Teacher 130
Chapter 10 The Future of InterculturalCompetence in Foreign LanguageEducation: Recommendationsfor Professional Development,Educational Policy and Research 160
References 182
Appendix 1 Questionnaire 186
Appendix 2 Bonferroni Multiple Comparisons Test Results 215