Intercultural competence : introduction / Arnd Witte and Theo Harden -- The sentient body and intercultural situational attentiveness / Arnd Witte -- Intercultural competence as 'construalistic' expressivity / Rob Philburn -- Intercultural communicative competence in the language education context : a floating signifier / Linda Huber -- Intercultural competence and its assessment : a critical contextualization / Beatriz Hernández-Moreno -- Intercultural competence : the windmills of foreign language teaching / Theo Harden -- Hotwords as a didactic vehicle to intercultural competence? / Hans-Jürgen Heringer -- Ill weeds never die / Margit Krause-Ono and Sylvia Waechter -- Is IC missing some of the core elements of language education? : towards a critical, digital and agentive literacy within intercultural communication / Marta Giralt, Liam Murray and Silvia Benini -- Rethinking intercultural competence in foreign and second language classrooms for adult migrant learners / Christiane Hohenstein, Liana Konstantinidou and Aleksandra Opacic -- The impact of study abroad on cultural and democratic literacy / Eva Seidl -- Intercultural language teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand : ten years of neglect, neoliberalism and missed opportunities / Elba Ramirez -- How could we prepare our students to become interculturally competent? / María Luisa Sierra Huedo and Almudena Nevado Llopis.
Summary:
"The contributions contained in this book examine the concept of 'intercultural competence' from the perspective of analysing theoretical challenges and practical issues. Despite its ongoing popularity across various discourses, 'intercultural competence' has remained a necessarily vague and oscillating concept that lends itself to continual rethinking and redefinition. The essays in this volume approach the complexity of the concept from a number of different angles. The essays range from theoretical considerations of redefining and expanding the concept in terms of hitherto neglected dimensions and ideas; critically contextualising issues of assessing intercultural competence; analysing the virtual dimension of intercultural competence for the development of critical digital pedagogies; application of the concept for the teaching and learning of foreign/second languages, including for migrant learners; the impact of study abroad on developing intercultural and democratic literacy; analysis of the concept in classroom practice across different cultures; and querying the concept for its lack of teachability. The volume develops a broad range of new perspectives on intercultural competence, providing stimulating new ideas, considerations and reflections around this oscillating, yet relevant concept"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Intercultural studies and foreign language learning, 1663-5809 ; Vol. 22
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