Increasing intercultural communicative competence in the ...
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Bennett, michael byram, and darla k. deardorff. bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (dmis). dr. m.j. bennett (2004), defines icc as “the ...
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Increasing Intercultural Communicative Competence in the EFL classroom Jessica Zoni Upton 1) Teaching context: Level: 2nd year University students Class size: 6 students x 2 booths (total students who joined the research: 24) Textbook: No textbook. Own handouts Class: Advanced Power-Up Tutorial ( English Communication class) Time: 45 minutes x once a week Issues: AdvancedPower-upTutorialisaprogrammedesignedforincreasingstudents’communicative abilityinthesecondlanguage(English).Moststudentswhotakethiscoursewillgoandstudy abroadthefollowingsemester,andthecourseshouldprovidethemwiththetools(conversation skills)andchances(time)tobeabletoeffectivelycommunicateinEnglish.However,inorderto ‘effectively’communicateinEnglish,onemustalsobeawareoftheculturalelementsthatare present in a conversation. AsBennettstates,“toavoidbecomingafluentfool,weneedtounderstandmorecompletelythe cultural dimension of language” (Bennett, 1997). Byram(2002)toounderlinestheimportanceofaninterculturaldimensioninla...
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