thinking about cross-cultural competence in language teaching
DESCRIPTION
A presentation given at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA, on the possibilities for achieving cross-cultural competence using the community of purpose model, as well as the idea of comparing stories derived from Jerome Bruner. The presentation argues that current approaches to intercultural competence often do not take into account the presence of difference within learners' and educators' consciousness.TRANSCRIPT
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Teaching Culture in an EFL SettingChallenges and (Possible) Paths to
SuccessLaurence Raw
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Language Teaching
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Language teaching with a “culture” garnish
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“It is possible that learners can
feel alienation in the process of
learning
a foreign language, alienation
from people in their home
culture, the target culture,
and from themselves”
Turkish Teacher of English Language, 2007
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Ideology
Educator Reluctance
Learner Nervousness
Obstacles to Developing Inter- or Cross-Cultural Awareness
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Acquiring Inter- or Cross-Cultural Competence
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A tripartite model of acquiring intercultural competence
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INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE COMPRISES …
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JEROME BRUNER (1915 --)
DISCOVERY LEARNING
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A learning situation in which the principal content of what is to be learned is not given but must be independently discovered by the learner.
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We use story as a form of telling about what happens in our life and in our own lives …. Not only are stories products of language … but telling stories … becomes intertwined with, even at times constitutive of, cultural life (Bruner 2002)
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Cross-Cultural Awareness = Discovering the ‘stories’ that individuals and/or their communities use to make sense of their lives
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Discover, recognize and negotiate difference
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COMMUNITY OF
PURPOSE
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Its scope is flexible yet clearly defined
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Discover and reflect on your own stories as a basis for discovering others’ stories
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Everyone – learners and educators – are involved in creating and sustaining that community
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Educators and learners should understand how to sustain that community through feedback and discussion of future needs
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Flexible Competencies and standards negotiated by individual communities
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NEGOTIATE BINARIES