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Mag. Sabine Kroneder, MA Mag. Sabine Kroneder, MA, +43 512 507 43012

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Facilitating Intercultural Competence in the English Language Classroom: Methods and Tools

PS 2

3

wöch.

alle 3 Semester

Englisch

-Learn how to implement an intercultural approach in your English class -Become familiar with a variety of tools and methods to facilitate intercultural learning -Improve your own intercultural competence: *know about your own cultural frame of reference and how this frame of reference affects your thinking and behaviour *increase awareness about cultural differences to be encountered and your reaction to them

Intercultural competence has been incorporated as a “Bildungs- und Lehraufgabe” in the Austrian curricula for foreign languages. Similarly the CEFR sees learning a language as a stimulus for promoting intercultural competence. Even though both the CEFR and the curricula for foreign languages refer to interculturality and take intercultural competence into account, its promotion often depends on the commitment and interest of individual teachers. This course aims to give you an overview of current research perspectives on intercultural learning in the language classroom and teaching culture in language. It will also provide you with a variety of hands-on methods and tools to facilitate intercultural competence in your English classes in the future.

Experiential and cognitive activities to foster intercultural learning (e.g. simulations, critical incidents, communication style inventories, games, cultural orientation style profiles) Videos to illustrate concepts Short lectures and discussions Paired sharing, group and small group activities

Active participation in class discussions / activities; Reading and other homework assignments Planning, execution and reflection of a teaching activity / class Reflective paper or letter

Key articles by Milton Bennett, Claire Kramsch, Michael Byram and others to be announced in class.

Diese LV ist dem Mittelmodul IMoF zugeordnet. Die Aufnahme in die LV erfolgt nach Erfüllung aller Zulassungsbedingungen (Bitte informieren Sie sich unbedingt unter http://www.uibk.ac.at/imof/lehre.html).

07.03.2013