Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence among Moroccan EFL students: Focus on raising their Cross-cultural Awareness
| Autor: | Driss Benattabou |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Intercultural competence
media_common.quotation_subject Credence Foreign language Face (sociological concept) P1-1091 Intercultural communication Multiculturalism Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Cross-cultural Sociology Philology. Linguistics Curriculum efl learners intercultural communication communication breakdown deep culture cross-cultural misunderstanding media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 43-56 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2704-7156 2704-5528 |
| DOI: | 10.36892/ijlls.v2i3.339 |
| Popis: | The goal of this paper is to consider alternative ways to incorporate an intercultural communication course as an integral part of the curriculum designed for Moroccan learners of EFL. Some aspects of what comes to be dubbed as ‘deep culture’ should find room in the contents of the EFL course so as to alert Moroccan learners about the potential intercultural barriers they are far more likely to face. It is proposed that for an effective intercultural communication to take place, the English course should help foreign language learners explicitly understand what target linguistic forms might be and how their meanings may differ across cultures. The analysis of some instances of intercultural misunderstandings may surely give more credence to the vital importance of implementing a multicultural approach to education. This paper offers some teaching strategies to assist Moroccan learners of EFL overcome these intercultural barriers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|