Intercultural Competence and Cultural Awareness in the Foreign Language Classroom
Evolution of the Concept of Culture in a Beginner Group
Keywords:
Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communicative Competence, Instructed Second Language Acquisition, Intercultural CommunicationAbstract
This study explores didactic resources to promote intercultural reflection in the foreign language classroom. In a beginner group (A1.2 level) of German as a foreign language in a Spanish university, activities for the development of intercultural communicative competence were integrated into a previous program with communicative orientation and a strong presence of oral peer interaction. The results obtained in this quasi-experimental research report on the development of cultural awareness of the participants.
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