Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

Contents\nForeword\nIntroduction\nPart 1: In the Classroom\n1. The International Partnership Project\n2. Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature\n3. ‘Up the Hills of Identity’\n4. Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts\n5. An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus\n6. ‘Family life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French\n7. ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education\nPart 2: Beyond the Classroom\n8. Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students\n9. Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection\n10. Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project\n11. New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies\n12. Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity\n13. ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners\nPart 3: Developing Resources\n14. Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools\n15. ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’\n16. British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students\n17. Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others\nFurther Reading\nIndex