The 21st-century technological revolution has facilitated worldwide communication and expanded personal and cultural relationships between individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale. People from different countries and backgrounds are now in constant communication. As a result of this increased contact, in the field of English language education, the importance of developing learners' intercultural competence has been strongly emphasized on both sides of the Atlantic, by national and intergovernmental organizations such as the Council of Europe, and ACTFL in the USA. The main aim of this…mehr
The 21st-century technological revolution has facilitated worldwide communication and expanded personal and cultural relationships between individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale. People from different countries and backgrounds are now in constant communication. As a result of this increased contact, in the field of English language education, the importance of developing learners' intercultural competence has been strongly emphasized on both sides of the Atlantic, by national and intergovernmental organizations such as the Council of Europe, and ACTFL in the USA. The main aim of this book is to provide language teachers with comprehensive guidance on developing their students' intercultural competence in the classroom.
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Autorenporträt
Yesim Bektas-Cetinkaya is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. She has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in foreign language education from Ohio State University (USA). Her research interests include intercultural communication, affective variables in foreign language education, teacher education and language literacy. She has published several articles in international journals, book chapters and books.
Inhaltsangabe
Yesim Bektas-Çetinkaya
Introduction: English(es) and Culture in Language Teaching
Elif Kemaloglu-Er and Esma Biricik Deniz
1 Defining ELF as a Sociolinguistic Concept and a Pedagogical Perspective
Servet Çelik and Sakire Erbay Çetinkaya
2 Culture in English Language Teacher Education Programs: Striving
for Intercultural Communicative Competence
Eda Nur Özcan and Esim Gürsoy
3 The Representation of Culture into ELT Materials
Mehmet Galip Zorba and Arda Arikan
4 Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence through
Literature
Berna Güryay
5 Developing Intercultural Competence through Creative Drama
Gonca Yangin Eksi and Asuman Asik
6 Raising Intercultural Awareness through Technology
Claudia Nickolson and Arda Arikan
7 Developing Intercultural Competence through Movies
Ceylan Yangin Ersanli and Deren Basak Akman Yesilel
8 Raising Intercultural Awareness of Young Learners
Bengü Börkan
9 Classroom Assessment of L2 Cultural Knowledge
Tarkan Kaçmaz
10 Conflict Resolution in Intercultural Communications