Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching

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Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching

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Claire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/ 

A book chapter she co-authored, including interculturality and “third space”: 

Kramsch, C., & Uryu, M. (2020). Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space. In The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication (pp. 204-218). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003036210-16/intercultural-contact-hybridity-third-space-claire-kramsch-michiko-uryu 

Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity: 

https://organizingengagement.org/models/developmental-model-of-intercultural-sensitivity/ 

Byram’s model of Intercultural Communicative Competence:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282504595_Enhancing_intercultural_communicative_competence_in_an_online_collaborative_assessment_environment_CEFcult_project/figures?lo=1 

Deardorff’s Intercultural Competence model: 

https://www.education.uw.edu/cirge/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Darla-INTERCULTURAL-COMPETENCE-MODELS-deardorff-09.pdf

Another prominent scholar on intercultural competence/interculturality is Fantini. 

ACTFL’s framework for intercultural learning is described if you scroll down in the standards site here: https://www.actfl.org/educator-resources/world-readiness-standards-for-learning-languages/standards-summary 

More about development of intercultural learning within ACTFL’s framework is found on pp. 15-16 of this open access document: https://www.actfl.org/uploads/files/general/Resources-Publications/Novice-Can-Do_Statements.pdf

Intercultural Can-Dos and reflection guides for students can be found open access here: https://www.actfl.org/uploads/files/general/Resources-Publications/Intercultural-Can-Dos_Reflections-Scenarios.pdf 

Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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