Although Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has become a key objective in foreign language (FL) education, curricula offer little in how language teachers can promote ICC through language instruction. This book responds to the challenge of how intercultural language learning can be accounted for more profoundly in FL teaching. By means of innovative intercultural assessments, the author investigates the development of three language competences central to ICC in relation to learning opportunities as experienced by German learners of English. Audiovisual media were found to be a major input factor in the development of intercultural language abilities. The book ends with a discussion of how audiovisual media can be implemented in secondary and tertiary FL and teacher education.
| ISBN: | 9783631650080 |
| Publication date: | 29th April 2014 |
| Author: | Veronika Timpe |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 317 pages |
| Series: | Language Testing and Evaluation |
| Genres: |
Language acquisition Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages: Language learning Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation Language teaching theory and methods |