INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE & META-CULTURAL

COMPETENCE

Ideas for activity designDr. Thuy Dinh (Monash University)

EIL teachers

■ motivator, needs analyst, materials developer, organizer of learning activities, monitor of student learning and provider of language input

■ promoter of intercultural competence and multiculturalism

■ promoter of other varieties of English

■ critical user of course books and teaching methodology

Teachers as curriculum(Tomlinson, 2012)

Intercultural Communicative Competence

Linguistic Competence

Sociolinguistic Competence

Discourse Competence

Intercultural Competence

Skill of Interpreting/Relating

(savoir comprendre)

Attitudes-Curiosity/Openness

(savoir être)

Critical cultural

awareness(savoir s’engager)

Knowledge(savoirs)

Skills of discovery/interaction

(savoir apprendre/faire) (Byram, 2000; Jackson, 2014)

Cultural Linguistics & meta-cultural competence

■ One language, but diverse cultural conceptualisations

■ Ability to use language to negotiate different conceptualisations

■ Awareness, Acknowledgement, Explication, and Negotiation.

Bungalow Duyen

TASK DESIGN(Chonachy, 2009; Dinh, 2013, 2014,

forthcoming)

Language – based

Information – based

Function – based

Comparative

Speculative

TASK DESIGN(Dinh, 2017)

Language questions

Content questions

Affect questions

Application questions

Ideas for primary level

■ Cultural boxes■ Cultural corners■ Short-stories and create a play■ Research ■ Cultural costume festival ■ …

Ideas for > intermediate level ■ Conversation analysis (CA research corpus) A – I – D – R Ex: This is a conversation between a professor and studentA: Hello, why don’t you sit down?B: Because you don’t tell me to

DCT (Discourse Completion Test)A: I have ruined your dressB: …………………………………..

A: Your child is so smartB: …………………………………….

■ Role-play Scenario 1: You are the director of the scholarship program and you inform a candidate that he/she did not get the award. How would you say to be polite?

Scenario 2: One student in your class chews gum and checks facebook all the time. What would you do and say to remind him/her in a polite and face-saving manner?

■ Role-playEx: Imagine you are a tourist guide and take a group of Australian tourists to Hue city. Play the role of the tour guide and the tourists

Writing across cultures

Ex: Write to your lecturer to ask for extension for one of assignments

Reading across cultures

Ex: Choose a short story written by a Vietnamese writer of English and write an essay in 100 words to describe the extent to which the story has captured the Vietnamese society

Brainstorming

■ Who writes what to whom?

SOME EXAMPLES

Integrated Practice in TEIL

Objectives: The students will

- Acquire identity as EIL users

- Become familiar with linguistic and cultural diversity of EIL

- Gain cross-cultural awareness needed for communication in EIL

- Establish their own thinking to cope with the varieties of values in EIL

- Acquire reading skills in EIL in combination with other skills

Materials:

TV news across the world: CNN (United States), BBC (UK), Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), ATV (Hongkong), ABS-CBN (Philippines) and NHK World Daily News (Japan)

Internet news media: CNN (United States), BBC (UK), Channel NewsAsia(Singapore), ATV (Hongkong), ABS-CBN (Philippines) and NHK World Daily News (Japan), Al Jazeera (Qater), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), Dawn (Pakistan), The times of India (India), Bangkok Post (Thailand), The Korea Herald (Korea), People’s Daily (China) and The Standard (Hongkong)

■ Pedagogical concepts and frameworks

Content-based language teaching

Media Literacy Education/ Critical thinking

- Students watch and read real time news in World Englishes and discuss those news in their own English

Possible topics

Politeness across cultures

Taboos across cultures

Slangs across cultures

Non-verbal communication

It’s your turn

ACTIVITY EXPO

Design at least 1 activity

■ Level:

■ Age:

■ Topic:

■ Form:

■ Aim:

■ Implications:

Discuss the extent to which your activity helps facilitate ICC or MCC?