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.
History
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