Intercultural Communicative Competence Demystified By LI Chen www

Intercultural Communicative Competence Demystified 跨文化交际能力能帮我们做什么？ By LI Chen (李晨) www. beiwaionline. com www. beiwaibest. com weibo. com/beiwailichen@beiwaionline. com

Understanding the title -Intercultural Communicative Competence Demystified

Pride of Place in Mr Li's Album

With Professor Martin Bygate (President of AILA) Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee

With Professor Geoffrey Leech With Professor J. Charles Alderson

With UK colleagues, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

With Beiwai. Online’s e. Educators

With Ningbo Vocational School Teacher Trainees

Yr 7 Graduation, Beaconsfield Primary School

Agenda Objectives “Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) and English Learners” 1. Why? 2. What? 3. How? Q&A

Objectives By the end of this talk, you should be able to understand what is culture why culture and English are "inseperable" what does ICC involve how ICC facilitates English learning smooths the way for one's overseas studies helps create a whole person

Why? Quizzes Why learn culture/English? Why related? learning culture and learning English culture & language Why should culture be a part of English learning from Day One?

Quiz 1 – a baffled “listener” A: My child is sick and she really needs my help at home. B: But I heard that you are about to be promoted, so, you know, you’d better keep up the good effort at work. A: Yeah, it’s a catch-22 situation for me. B: Sorry, catch what?

Quiz 5 – translation Her mother died of hard labour. Her mother died of difficult labour.

Why learn culture/English? • Is it because the Ministry of Education requires it? • As an intellectual exercise to help kids get smarter? • So that people in China can access more information from abroad? • To qualify for higher-paying jobs? • To gain respect in the global village? • . . .

Not just a requirement of the syllabus! • Unless culture/English has the potential for being useful, it will be very difficult to learn/teach. • Students need to feel that English will help them: further their education, improve their career prospects, make friends etc.

Purpose of Learning English -- Message from Jay Walker at TED http: //t. cn/S 2 b 44 I

Glossary mania Beatles hysterical pandemonium deafening rapture weeping alarming grueling intensity tsunami universal

Culture Communication Language Zhang (2007: VIII)

Stern (1983: 274)

学英语 & 学文化语言能力 (Language Proficiency) 语言三要素语音 Phonology 词汇 Lexicon 语法 Grammar

学英语 & 学文化语言能力 (Language Proficiency) 语言三要素 (语音 | 词汇 | 语法) 交际能力 (Communicative Competence) 社会语言能力 (语言的恰当性 Language Appropriacy) 篇章能力 (Cohesion & Coherence) 应对能力 (e. g. ask for clarification; interruption; hesitation etc. )

China Daily 新词新译 http: //language. chinadaily. com. cn/chineseterm. shtml 育婴假 parental leave (The draft, as the nation's first gender equality regulation, granted five days of parental leave for both parents of a child younger than age 3 in its first version last October and extended the leave to 10 days in its second version last December. 这个国内首个性别平等条例草案在去年 10月的初稿中，建议给“家有3岁内宝宝的新爸爸妈妈”每年享受 5天的育婴假，去年 12月份的二稿中，育婴假被延长到 10天。) (2012 -07 -09)

Culture learning in the past (or today? ) 文化教与学 (see handout p 1)

What? • What is culture? • What to learn about culture? • What is required of an “intercultural EFL learner”?

What is culture?

What could be achieved by learning intercultural communication? • ‘transcending the limitations of one’s own world view’ (Fantini, 2000: 31) • Through an education for ICC: • • • We open up to other ways of thinking and other ways of logic We find a tongue in which we can speak our humanity to each other We learn to see that our own view of the world is just one among many (Willems, 2002: 19)

How? How ICC facilitates English learning smooths the way for one's overseas studies helps create a whole person

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