Overview
- Examines the explicit and implicit link between intercultural competence and pragmatics
- Features findings from a wide variety of foreign languages
- Includes results from teachers working in a number of different countries on six continents
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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About this book
This Open Access book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers in higher education teaching a variety of languages (e.g., Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish) how they conceptualise intercultural competence and which skills, competences and knowledge they consider important in their teaching contexts. The data were collected with an online survey that focused on the relationship between intercultural competence and pragmatics.
While international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) or the Council of Europe (CoE) agree that intercultural competence should play an important role in education, it is not always clear what IC may encompass in specific teaching contexts and subject areas. Examining how modern foreign language teachers in higher education conceptualise intercultural competence and the value they attach as well as the attention they give to various areas of pragmatics in their teaching is highly important, since those language professionals may be the final teachers learners encounter during their formal foreign language education. They are therefore in a unique position to shape modern foreign language learners’ intercultural and pragmatic awareness, competence and skills.
This book will be of interest to language professionals, modern foreign language teachers and teacher trainers, as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics, pragmatics, and language education.
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Keywords
- intercultural competence
- pragmatic competence
- intercultural teaching
- intercultural communicative competence
- L2 pragmatics
- teaching of L2 pragmatics
- intercultural competence in foreign language teaching
- language and culture
- intercultural skills
- intercultural communication
- communicative competence
- intercultural competence in higher education
- intercultural education
- interlanguage pragmatics
- ICC
- IC
- Open Access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gila A. Schauer is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She has been researching aspects of intercultural and pragmatic competence for more than 20 years, beginning with her MA and PhD dissertations on cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, then exploring cross-cultural (im)politeness perceptions, young learners and L2 pragmatics, as well as foreign language teachers' views and conceptualisations of intercultural competence. She was Director of the EAP/Study Skills Programme at Lancaster University from 2005 to 2010 and Director of the Language Centre at the University of Erfurt from 2012 to 2014.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics
Authors: Gila A. Schauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44472-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44471-5Published: 13 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44472-2Published: 12 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 154
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication, Media and Communication, Applied Linguistics, Higher Education