Language and linguistics today: The role of intercultural competence in language education 2510-f1ENG2W-LLT-RIC

https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1310

The course will focus on the following aspects referring to intercultural competence:
- Are we interculturally competent?
- What is intercultural competence? An introduction to the concept
- Intercultural competence and the politics of foreign language education
- cross-cultural differences in communication
- plurilingual and intercultural competences
- intercultural competence and teacher education
- the challenge of globalization in foreign language education
- languaculture as a key concept in language and culture teaching
- language as an essential component of ICC
- language learning and crossing borders
- Intercultural citizenship and foreign language education
- communicative language teaching vs. interculural communciative competence
- evaluation of coursebooks for English as a foreign language in light of intercultural competence
- students' presentation

Całkowity nakład pracy studenta

Contact hours with the teacher: - active participation in classes – 30 hrs

Efekty uczenia się - wiedza

The student: W1: has knowledge of the usage of academic language in academic discourse - K_W10

Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności

The student: U1: is able to search for, analyze, assess, select and use information needed in scholarly work of a philologist using approproate and various sources - K_U01 U2: is able to read texts in English - K_U02 U3: can use the basic theoretical approaches and paradigms appropriate to philology - KU_06 U4: can work according to the goals and guidelines formulated by the teacher - K_U07 U5: is able to properly define priorities for the implementation of a task set by himself or others - K_U09 U6: is abe to make oral presentations as well as to argue and formulate conclusions in English - K_U15

Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne

The student: K1: is aware of the level of their knowledge and skills, understands the need for continuous training and development - K_K01

Metody dydaktyczne podające

- wykład konwersatoryjny
- opis
- pogadanka

Metody dydaktyczne poszukujące

- klasyczna metoda problemowa
- seminaryjna
- ćwiczeniowa

Wymagania wstępne

Knowledge of English at level B2

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Katarzyna Piątkowska

Kryteria oceniania

Methods of assessment:
- a presentation on a chosen topic (W1, W2, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6, K1)
Assessment criteria:
- choice of the topic – 0-5 points
- content – 0-5 points
- structure of the presentation – 0-5 points
- language of the presentation – 0-5 points
- interest – 0-5 pkt.
60-69% – 3
70-75% – 3+
76-85% – 4
86-90% - 4+
91-10%% – 5
Both the students and the teacher will be evaluators. 10% of the grade will come from the students and 90% from the teacher.

Attendance is obligatory. Each class absence has to be excused in the first week after the lesson missed. The final grade percentage will be reduced by 10% for every unexcused absence. A grade average of at least 60% must be achieved to pass the course.

The instructor is authorized to refuse credit when the student’s absenteeism rate is around 50%.

Praktyki zawodowe

does not apply

Literatura

material on Moodle
additional reading:
Byram, M. 1997. Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Byram, M., Gribkova, B., Starkey, H. 2002. Developing the Intercultural Dimension in Language Teaching. A Practical Introduction for Teachers. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Kecskes, I. 2014. Intercultural Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Additional sources:
Kramsch, C. 2004. Context and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Więcej informacji

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