The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other

Mostrar todas las versiones(2)

We have been inspired to write this work thanks to our experiences for one academic year as Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and Arkansas, USA; respectively granted by British Council- and Fulbright-Ministerio de Educación. Our duties as FLTAs consisted in help...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo, Scilipoti, Paola Mabel
Formato: documento de conferencia conferenceObject acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas 2012
Materias:
Lenguas Extranjeras
Enseñanza
Lingüística
Acceso en línea:http://rdi.uncoma.edu.ar/handle/uncomaid/13788
http://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/190
Aporte de:
Repositorio Institucional UNCo de Universidad Nacional del Comahue
id I22-R178-uncomaid-13788
record_format dspace
institution Universidad Nacional del Comahue
institution_str I-22
repository_str R-178
collection Repositorio Institucional UNCo
language Inglés
topic Lenguas Extranjeras
Enseñanza
Lingüística
spellingShingle Lenguas Extranjeras
Enseñanza
Lingüística
Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo
Scilipoti, Paola Mabel
The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
topic_facet Lenguas Extranjeras
Enseñanza
Lingüística
description We have been inspired to write this work thanks to our experiences for one academic year as Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and Arkansas, USA; respectively granted by British Council- and Fulbright-Ministerio de Educación. Our duties as FLTAs consisted in helping in speaking and writing sessions, testing, teaching, designing materials, and being in charge of cultural activities related to food and dance in secondary schools and universities. Today’s globalized world has permeated education, and interculturality has recently been integrated in the English as a Foreign/Second Language classroom, broadening the language experience by including cultural aspects in a lesson. This is why we believe that understanding others is essential for communication and cooperation. As Sercu (2005) states, “foreign language education is, by definition, intercultural. Bringing a foreign language to the classroom means connecting learners to a world that is culturally different from their own” and promoting “the acquisition of intercultural competence in the learners” (Sercu 2005: 1). When teaching a foreign language, diverse forms of living and understanding the world get into the classroom by means of audiovisual materials, texts, talks, coursebooks and realia. Thanks to these sources, all members in the FL classroom can discover a foreign culture and contrast it with their own. The underlying aim is to work with and form pluricultural individuals, i.e. learners with the ability to recognize others and be aware of their own traditions and values. As it is not always essential to travel abroad to be pluriculturally competent, some practical ideas will be shown as a way of exemplifying lessons that are culturally focused and exploitable from a pluricultural point of view.
format documento de conferencia
conferenceObject
acceptedVersion
author Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo
Scilipoti, Paola Mabel
author_facet Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo
Scilipoti, Paola Mabel
author_sort Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo
title The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
title_short The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
title_full The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
title_fullStr The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
title_full_unstemmed The importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
title_sort importance of being pluricultural: blooming with the other
publisher Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas
publishDate 2012
url http://rdi.uncoma.edu.ar/handle/uncomaid/13788
http://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/190
work_keys_str_mv AT espinosagonzaloeduardo theimportanceofbeingpluriculturalbloomingwiththeother
AT scilipotipaolamabel theimportanceofbeingpluriculturalbloomingwiththeother
AT espinosagonzaloeduardo importanceofbeingpluriculturalbloomingwiththeother
AT scilipotipaolamabel importanceofbeingpluriculturalbloomingwiththeother
bdutipo_str Repositorios
_version_ 1764820505992364034

Ejemplares similares