Rethinking Intercultural Competence: Theoretical Challenges and Practical Issues

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The contributions contained in this book examine the concept of 'intercultural competence' from the perspective of analysing theoretical challenges and practical issues.

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This book examines 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.

Author Biography

Arnd Witte is Professor of Modern Languages at the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Maynooth University, the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has published widely in the area of foreign language learning and intercultural communication, with a particular focus on the development of intercultural competence. Theo Harden is Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin and Professor of German at the Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução at the Universidade de Brasília. He has published widely in the area of foreign language teaching and learning and translation studies.

Table of Contents

Contents: Arnd Witte/Theo Harden: Intercultural Competence – Introduction – Arnd Witte: The Sentient Body and Intercultural Situational Attentiveness – Rob Philburn: Intercultural Competence as "Construalistic" Expressivity – Linda Huber: Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Language Education Context – a Floating Signifier – Beatriz Hernández- Moreno: Intercultural Competence and Its Assessment: A Critical Contextualisation – Theo Harden: Intercultural Competence: The Windmills of Foreign Language Teaching – Hans- Jürgen Heringer: Hotwords as a Didactic Vehicle to Intercultural Competence? – Margit Krause-Ono/Sylvia Wächter: Ill Weeds Never Die – Marta Giralt, Liam Murray/Silvia Benini: Is IC Missing Some of the Core Elements of Language Education? Towards a Critical, Digital and Agentive Literacy Within Intercultural Communication – Christiane Hohenstein, Liana Konstantinidou/Aleksandra Opacic: Rethinking Intercultural Competence in Foreign and Second Language Classrooms for Adult Migrant Learners – Eva Seidl: The Impact of Study Abroad on Cultural and Democratic Literacy – Elba S. Ramirez: Intercultural Language Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand: Ten Years of Neglect, Neoliberalism and Missed Opportunities – María Luisa Sierra Huedo/Almudena Nevado Llopis: How Could We Prepare Our Students to Become Interculturally Competent?.

Details ISBN1800791712 Short Title Rethinking Intercultural Competence Pages 264 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1800791712 ISBN-13 9781800791718 Format Paperback Subtitle Theoretical Challenges and Practical Issues Series Number 22 Publication Date 2021-04-30 Publisher Peter Lang International Academic Publishers UK Release Date 2021-04-30 Place of Publication Oxford US Release Date 2021-04-29 Imprint Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-04-30 NZ Release Date 2021-04-30 Author Theo Harden Edition Description New edition Series Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning Edited by Arnd Witte DEWEY 370.117 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 29 Illustrations We've got this

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