Intercultural Competence in ELT: Raising Awareness in Classrooms

by Yesim Bektas Cetinkaya (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631820148
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/25/2020
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Yeşim Bektaş-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 Şakire 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 Yangın Ekşi and Asuman Aşık

6 Raising Intercultural Awareness through Technology

Claudia Nickolson and Arda Arikan

7 Developing Intercultural Competence through Movies

Ceylan Yangın Ersanlı and Deren Başak Akman Yeşilel

8 Raising Intercultural Awareness of Young Learners

Bengü Börkan

9 Classroom Assessment of L2 Cultural Knowledge

Tarkan Kaçmaz

10 Conflict Resolution in Intercultural Communications

Contributors