DCJC025 Intercultural Aspects of Foreign Language Teaching

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Klára Uličná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Věra Janíková, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to introduce different variants of didactic understanding of the concept of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language teaching.
Syllabus
  • This course makes part of the optional courses of the didactic section (subsection Topical chapters on didactics of foreign languages); it is offered especially to students whose dissertation is related to this topic. The aim of the subject is to introduce different variants of didactic understanding of the concept of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language teaching. Theoretical starting points: defining the concept of intercultural communicative competence, developments of this concept, contemporary influential models of intercultural communicative competence and its components (i.e. at general level communicative competence and intercultural competence, specifically then foreign language communicative competence). The core of the course is a reflection on models of intercultural communicative competence in categories of goals, content and didactic means in foreign language teaching. Attention will be paid to insufficiently elaborated questions of evaluation of the development of the concept of intercultural communicative competence (in general and in school teaching).
Literature
  • Göhring, H. Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Anregungen für Sprach- und Kulturmittler. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2002.
  • Byram, M. Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1997.
  • Průcha, J. Multikulturní výchova. Teorie – praxe – výzkum. Praha: ISV nakladatelství. 2001.
  • Wierlacher, A.,Stötzel, G. Blickwinkel: Kulturelle Optik und interkulturelle Gegenstandskonstitution (Kongress der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Germanistik). München: iudicium,1996.
  • Fink, G. Kulturstandards und interkulturelle Kommunikation anhand empirischer Ländervergleiche. Köln: Böhlau, 2000.
  • Buttaroni, S., Paula, A. Ehe, Berge und schwarze Katzen. Interkulturelle Kommunikation im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Meran: Alpha & Beta, 1999.
  • Hofstede, G. Kultury a organizace: software lidské mysli: spolupráce mezi kulturami a její důležitost pro přežití. Praha: UK, 1999.
  • Bredella, L., Delanoy, W. (Hg.) Interkultureller Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: Narr (Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik), 1999.
  • The Sage handbook of intercultural competence. Edited by Darla K. Deardorff - Derek Curtis Bok. London: Sage, 2009, xiv, 542. ISBN 9781412960458. info
  • Fremdverstehen und interkulturelle Kompetenz. Edited by Lothar Bredella - Herbert Christ. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007, 193 s. ISBN 9783823362838. info
  • Společný evropský referenční rámec pro jazyky : jak se učíme jazykům, jak je vyučujeme a jak v jazycích hodnotíme. Translated by Jaroslava Ivanová. 2. české vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, xviii, 267. ISBN 8024414252. info
  • Interkulturelle Kompetenz : Konzepte und Praxis des Unterrichts. Edited by Laurenz Volkmann - Klaus Stierstorfer - Wolfgang Gehring. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002, 248 s. ISBN 3823349864. info
  • Developing intercultural competence in practice. Edited by Michael Byram - Adam Nichols - David Stevens. Clevedon: Multilingual matters, 2001, viii, 283. ISBN 1853595365. info
  • Developing intercultural competence in practice. Edited by Michael Byram - Adam Nichols - David Stevens. Clevedon: Multilingual matters, 2001, viii, 283. ISBN 1853595365. info
  • KRAMSCH, Claire J. Context and culture in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, viii, 295. ISBN 0194371875. info
Teaching methods
lecture, class discussion
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: students submit a portfolio of Intercultural communicative competence. Debate.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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