“Who is the real stranger — the one who lives in a foreign land and knows he belongs elsewhere, or the one who lives the life of a foreigner in her native land and has no place else to belong?” Elif Safak
The paper focuses on the inter-cultural dimension of language teacher education. Cross-cultural problems are central to language teaching problems and teachers must be inspired to co-operate in the globalizing world of 21st century, which was the motive for Willems to Read More …
First of all, I must confess that I have read this piece with a lot more interest than I have read the other articles. It was like an exploration of culture through several perspectives and discussions. It had a sense Read More …
Building Intercultural Competence in the Language Classroom by Moeller & Nuget is an article written on practical implications of developing intercultural competence in the American classrooms where students are taught a foreign language, yet many of the activities cited can Read More …
The paper was a thorough study of official documents which involve the national education councils held in Turkey starting from 1939. It was especially interesting to me in that I had never before read about the history of foreign language Read More …
Communicative competence aims to develop situational contexts in which the student is exposed to authentic language used in circumstances of the native speakers. The article Towards Intercultural Communicative Competence by Cem Alptekin (2002), questions the validity of communicative competence developing Read More …