Enhancing intercultural competence through U.S. multicultural literature in the EFL classroom

Autor: Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Folios, Iss 38, Pp 95-109 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0123-4870
Popis: This article reports part of an action research experience that was conducted in an advanced EFL classroom of the language program at a public university in Bogotá, Colombia in 2011. The study proposes the incorporation of authentic multicultural literary texts in the EFL classroom as a means to develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Data were collected to show how learners acquired cultural knowledge, developed critical intercultural skills, and created positive attitudes -aspects of Byram's model of ICC- when they read literary short stories. Findings show that integrating language and literature in EFL constitutes a pedagogical contribution to construct critical intercultural awareness.
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