Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy
From Theory To Practice

Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

Zsuzsanna Ittzés Abrams (Author)

9781108748230, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 August 2020

280 pages
23 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm, 6.2 kg

'It offers clear theoretical expositions and copious teaching resources, and will be of great interest to language teachers and language teacher trainers. Its well-written, fully documented, and accessible style makes it suitable for courses in language pedagogy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.' Laura M. Callahan, LINGUIST List

Learning a new language offers a unique opportunity to discover other cultures as well as one's own. This discovery process is essential for developing 21st-century intercultural communication skills. To help prepare language teachers for their role as guides during this process, this book uses interdisciplinary research from social sciences and applied linguistics on intercultural communication for designing teaching activities that are readily implemented in the language classroom. Diverse language examples are used throughout the book to illustrate theoretical concepts, making them accessible to language teachers at all skill levels. The chapters introduce various perspectives on culture, intercultural communicative competence, analyzing authentic language data, teaching foreign/second languages with an intercultural communication orientation, the intercultural journey, the language-culture-identity connection, as well as resolving miscommunication and cultural conflict. While the immediate audience of this book is language teachers, the ultimate beneficiaries are language learners interested in undertaking the intercultural journey.

Introduction
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations: 1. Key Concepts in Intercultural Communication
2. Pedagogical Foundations of Teaching ICC for L2/Lx Use
3. The Learner as Analyst: Methods and Sources of Data Analysis
Part II. Pedagogical Implementation: 4. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Vocabulary
5. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Grammar
6. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Pragmatics
7. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Paralinguistic Features
8. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Nonverbal Communication
9. Intercultural Communication: Teaching Cultural Knowledge
10. Assessing Intercultural Communication
Part III. Intercultural Communication and the Personal Journey: 11. Cultural Transitions
Cultures and Identities
13. Miscommunication, Conflict and Intercultural Communicative Competence
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Language teaching theory & methods [CJA], Language teaching & learning [other than ELT CJ], Language acquisition [CFDC], Sociolinguistics [CFB]