Building intercultural competence in the language classroom

Authors

Aleidine Kramer Moeller, University of Nebraska–LincolnFollow
Kristen Nugent, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published in UNLOCK THE GATEWAY TO COMMUNICATION, Stephanie Dhonau, editor. Central States Conference Report (Eau Clarie, WI: Crown Prints, 2014), pp. 1-18.

Comments

© 2014 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Abstract

This article reviews and summarizes the literature on intercultural competence and intercultural communicative competence in order to better understand how these notions can impact the cultural component of a foreign language curriculum. Building on various models of intercultural communicative competence, examples of cultural tasks that promote intercultural communicative competence and represent best practices in language teaching and learning are presented and illustrated for classroom integration.