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Avoiding Stereotyping and enhancing intercultural understanding

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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Alistair WelshAlistair Welsh
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.


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Journal

TEFLIN Journal

Volume

22

Issue

1

Pagination

34 - 44

Publisher

Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia

Location

Malang, Indonesia

ISSN

0215-773X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2011, Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia

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