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Avoiding Stereotyping and enhancing intercultural understanding

Welsh, Alistair 2011, Avoiding Stereotyping and enhancing intercultural understanding, TEFLIN Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 34-44.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of International and Political Studies
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Title Avoiding Stereotyping and enhancing intercultural understanding
Author(s) Welsh, Alistair
Journal name TEFLIN Journal
Volume number 22
Issue number 1
Start page 34
End page 44
Total pages 11
Publisher Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia
Place of publication Malang, Indonesia
Publication date 2011
ISSN 0215-773X
Keyword(s) Intercultural understanding
Stereotyping
Culture
Third place
Summary Anecdotally, language learners often struggle to acquire in­tercultural understanding. Teaching intercultural understanding presents significant challenges for language teachers. This article offers some in-sights into language learners' intercultural understanding and strategies to help enhance intercultural understanding that seek to promote analyti­cal and critical thinking. The aim is to build on the principles of the emerging pedagogy of Intercultural Language Learning (1cLL). IcLL suggests there is a 'third place', where cultures overlap. IcLL acknowl­edges the importance of identifying with the 'other', whilst not denying the 'self'. Intercultural competence requires sensitivity to difference, an ability to identify with others and to critically reflect on one's own cul­tural background.
Language eng
Field of Research 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
Socio Economic Objective 930202 Teacher and Instructor Development
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
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