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Using online learning objects to develop intercultural awareness in ELT: a critical examination in a Thai higher education setting
No full textE-learning offers many new pedagogic opportunities as well as challenges but while it has grown in prominence, it is still far from a ‘normalised’ part of English Language Teaching (ELT). Similarly, the significance of the cultural dimension in ELT has also gained in importance. However, the use of English as a global lingua franca, going beyond the traditional ‘native speaker’ English countries, has resulted in a need for a more intercultural approach to ELT that recognises this role for English. This study investigated the development of an online course in intercultural communication and intercultural awareness for a group of English language learners in a setting in which English predominantly functions as a lingua franca. A 15 hour independent study online course was developed and delivered to 31 students and six teachers from a higher education institute in Thailand. The interactive online materials for the course are presented and discussed in this paper as well as student and teacher opinion. The findings demonstrate generally positive responses to both the course contents and the course delivery through e-learning. However, while most of the participants gave the course positive ratings, many still felt they would have preferred a face-to-face course. In relation to the course content the participants had very favourable attitudes and responses to learning about intercultural communication and global Englishe
Intercultural communication
No full textIntercultural communication (IC) can be defined as communication where cultural and linguistic differences are perceived as relevant to the interaction by the participants involved or by the researchers observing it. The intercultural dimensions to language teaching have always been present, but the rapid spread of globalization has seen an increased focus on learning languages for global connections and intercultural communication. This has been particularly true of English and ELT due to the role that English language use has played in the processes of globalization. The growing importance of IC in ELT means that it needs to be incorporated more deeply and systematically into teacher education, teaching materials, classroom practices and assessment. This entails expanding communicative competence to incorporate intercultural competence and awareness, replacing the native speaker with an intercultural speaker, and a critical approach to language, culture and identity that encourages learners to question taken for granted assumptions and stereotypes. <br/
Identity and interculturality through English as a lingua franca
No full textThis paper explores the construction of identity in intercultural communication through English as a lingua franca (ELF). It is argued that ELF provides a valuable lens through which to explore identity due to the huge scale at which ELF communication occurs globally and in the Asian region. ELF research has shown identities constructed and negotiated in a fluid, hybrid and emergent manner in communication across and through a range of scales from the local, to the national and the global. However, at the same time we need to be wary of assuming participants are free to construct any identity they wish and the ascription of identities by others is also a feature of intercultural communication through ELF. The discussion here will focus on the notion of interculturality and identity as an approach which captures this negotiated nature of identity
Book review. Contrastive rhetoric: reaching to intercultural rhetoric, edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout,and William Rozycki
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