Council of Europe

Ildikó Lázár

John Strange

Martina Huber-Kriegler

Intercultural experiences pose inevitable challenges to one's personal identity and communication skills. This textbook wishes to help the trainer, the teacher and the learner in the process by encouraging culture-general discussions about culture with a small c and by using a reflective approach.

An Intercultural Communication Textbook

Mirrors and Windows

European Centre for Modern Languages

L'objectif principal de l'ensemble du projet consistait à favoriser l'intégration d'une formation à la communication interculturelle dans la formation des enseignants en Europe. Le travail de recherche et de développement décrit dans cette publication entend contribuer à l'intégration de la formation à la communication interculturelle aux programmes de formation des enseignants.

Incorporating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Language Teaching Education

Michaela Čaňková

The aim of this publication is to assist teacher educators and language teachers in shifting the focus from linguistic competence to intercultural communicative competence. The printed booklet of the present guide contains the introductions to: definitions of key terms in intercultural communication; planning and designing intercultural communication courses and workshops; teaching/training methods and materials; and assessing intercultural communicative competence. The materials on the accompanying CD-ROM include: the theoretical background to teaching language and culture; detailed workshop and course planning guidelines; teaching materials and activities based on literature, films and songs; guidelines and tasks for assessment and descriptors of competences; intercultural communication workshop reports; and our research articles about the intercultural dimension of foreign language teaching (FIT).--Publisher's description.

A Guide for Language Teachers and Teacher Educators

Developing and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard

60 activities to learn and assess transversal attitudes, skills and knowledge! TASKs for democracy is a handbook of 60 activities, developed within the Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme Community of Practice, for practitioners in formal and non-formal educational settings to learn and assess the attitudes, skills, values and knowledge needed to support democratic culture. Democratic culture is more than institutions, laws and procedures. While essential elements of democracy, they do not in themselves make societies democratic: they only work when rooted in what we call “democratic culture” or “a culture of democracy”, the set of attitudes and behaviours required to make democratic institutions and democratic laws function in practice. Competences for democratic culture are therefore essential for building the kind of society in which we would like to live. This 2nd edition of TASKs for democracy supports the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture endorsed by the Council of Europe Standing Conference of Ministers of Education in April 2016. This publication aims to help build European societies characterised by a culture of democracy and human rights. This is a formidable task and it can only be achieved if European teachers and trainers rise to the challenge with competence and enthusiasm. The collection of learning and “re-learning” activities will support them to promote the development of competences for a democratic culture in their day-to-day educational practice.

Ildikó Lázár

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