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  • Introduction

  • Zsuzsanna Ittzés Abrams, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book:
    Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy
    Published online:
    15 August 2020
    Print publication:
    27 August 2020, pp 1-6

  • Summary

    Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is an essential skill-set in the twenty-first century, but what constitutes this skill-set is not familiar to most people. In order to change this, the introduction examines reasons why developing ICC is so important in today’s interconnected world, identifying peace, economic, technological, demographic, ethical, and self-awareness imperatives. It also makes the case for utilizing second/foreign language classrooms to foster ICC development, since learning another language presents a unique opportunity for this process; it can teach learners about other cultures, while also helping them reflect on their own.

Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy
  • From Theory To Practice
  • Zsuzsanna Ittzés Abrams
  • Published online:
    15 August 2020
    Print publication:
    27 August 2020
  • 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.