Teaching Intercultural Competence in the Language Classroom: A Guide for Teachers

• In Event: Roundtable Session 52
  In Roundtable Session: Emergent Language Use in Multilingual Settings

Abstract

Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning provides an alternative pedagogical frame work for teaching languages. This paper will discuss an inquiry project involving collaboration between a German language classroom in Wellington, New Zealand and a counterpart German class in Ohio, USA. The project aims: to examine how language teachers can help students develop intercultural competence and become global citizens; to provide teachers with strategies to this end; to help students at other ends of the world in their development as global citizens; to use the target language (German) in an authentic context as the means of interaction between the two groups of students. This paper will provide a rationale based on relevant literature, the research methodology, discussion, findings and conclusions.

Author

• Eric Stewart Yates, Victoria University of Wellington