Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy: From Theory To Practice
Cambridge University Press, 8/27/2020
EAN 9781108490153, ISBN10: 1108490158
Hardcover, 280 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Learning a new language offers a unique opportunity to discover other cultures as well as one's own. This discovery process is essential for developing 21st-century intercultural communication skills. To help prepare language teachers for their role as guides during this process, this book uses interdisciplinary research from social sciences and applied linguistics on intercultural communication for designing teaching activities that are readily implemented in the language classroom. Diverse language examples are used throughout the book to illustrate theoretical concepts, making them accessible to language teachers at all skill levels. The chapters introduce various perspectives on culture, intercultural communicative competence, analyzing authentic language data, teaching foreign/second languages with an intercultural communication orientation, the intercultural journey, the language-culture-identity connection, as well as resolving miscommunication and cultural conflict. While the immediate audience of this book is language teachers, the ultimate beneficiaries are language learners interested in undertaking the intercultural journey.
Introduction
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
1. Key Concepts in Intercultural Communication
2. Pedagogical Foundations of Teaching ICC for L2/Lx Use
3. The Learner as Analyst
Methods and Sources of Data Analysis
Part II. Pedagogical Implementation
4. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Vocabulary
5. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Grammar
6. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Pragmatics
7. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Paralinguistic Features
8. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Nonverbal Communication
9. Intercultural Communication
Teaching Cultural Knowledge
10. Assessing Intercultural Communication
Part III. Intercultural Communication and the Personal Journey
11. Cultural Transitions
Cultures and Identities
13. Miscommunication, Conflict and Intercultural Communicative Competence
Appendix.