Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups
This paper reports on an exploratory collective case study on three in-service English language teachers in Medellin, Colombia. The study aimed at creating a route for teachers to collaboratively construct their understanding of intercultural communicative competence through their involvement in a s...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2020-01-01
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| description | This paper reports on an exploratory collective case study on three in-service English language teachers in Medellin, Colombia. The study aimed at creating a route for teachers to collaboratively construct their understanding of intercultural communicative competence through their involvement in a study group. Data were collected through recordings, interviews, and reflective logs, which followed a bottom-up analysis. Results evidenced changes in the participants’ views of culture, cross-cultural knowledge, intercultural stance, and understanding of intercultural communicative competence. As a conclusion, study groups materialized as an applicable tool for teachers’ professional development, which allowed participants to redraw their own initial beliefs and assumptions, fostering them to change professionally and in their praxis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49466f9e13be48e491f85e3b534f659e2023-09-03T01:09:45ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902020-01-01221759210.15446/profile.v22n1.76796Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study GroupsLuis Fernando Cuartas Álvarez0Universidad de AntioquiaThis paper reports on an exploratory collective case study on three in-service English language teachers in Medellin, Colombia. The study aimed at creating a route for teachers to collaboratively construct their understanding of intercultural communicative competence through their involvement in a study group. Data were collected through recordings, interviews, and reflective logs, which followed a bottom-up analysis. Results evidenced changes in the participants’ views of culture, cross-cultural knowledge, intercultural stance, and understanding of intercultural communicative competence. As a conclusion, study groups materialized as an applicable tool for teachers’ professional development, which allowed participants to redraw their own initial beliefs and assumptions, fostering them to change professionally and in their praxis.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/76796cultureenglish as foreign languageinservice teacher educationintercultural communicative competencestudy groups |
| spellingShingle | Luis Fernando Cuartas Álvarez Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development culture english as foreign language inservice teacher education intercultural communicative competence study groups |
| title | Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups |
| title_full | Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups |
| title_fullStr | Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups |
| title_short | Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups |
| title_sort | intercultural communicative competence in service efl teachers building understanding through study groups |
| topic | culture english as foreign language inservice teacher education intercultural communicative competence study groups |
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