AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
Anecdotally, language learners often struggle to acquire intercultural understanding. Teaching intercultural understanding presents significant challenges for language teachers. This article offers some insights into language learners' intercultural understanding and strategies to help enhance...
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Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)
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Anecdotally, language learners often struggle to acquire intercultural understanding. Teaching intercultural understanding presents significant challenges for language teachers. This article offers some insights into language learners' intercultural understanding and strategies to help enhance intercultural understanding that seek to promote analytical and critical thinking. The aim is to build on the principles of the emerging pedagogy of Intercultural Language Learning (IcLL). IcLL suggests there is a ‘third place', where cultures overlap. IcLL acknowledges the importance of identifying with the ‘other', whilst not denying the ‘self'. Intercultural competence requires sensitivity to difference, an ability to identify with others and to critically reflect on one's own cultural background.
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| spelling | doaj.art-70d853372a5348ce9e4465626d9623e32023-07-10T06:49:31ZengAssociation for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)TEFLIN Journal0215-773X2356-26412011-02-0122110.15639/teflinjournal.v22i1/34-4413AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGAlistair Welsh0Deakin University, Australia Anecdotally, language learners often struggle to acquire intercultural understanding. Teaching intercultural understanding presents significant challenges for language teachers. This article offers some insights into language learners' intercultural understanding and strategies to help enhance intercultural understanding that seek to promote analytical and critical thinking. The aim is to build on the principles of the emerging pedagogy of Intercultural Language Learning (IcLL). IcLL suggests there is a ‘third place', where cultures overlap. IcLL acknowledges the importance of identifying with the ‘other', whilst not denying the ‘self'. Intercultural competence requires sensitivity to difference, an ability to identify with others and to critically reflect on one's own cultural background. https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/17intercultural understandingstereotypingculturethird place |
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| title | AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING |
| title_full | AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING |
| title_fullStr | AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING |
| title_full_unstemmed | AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING |
| title_short | AVOIDING STEREOTYPING AND ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING |
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