CLIL and Intercultural Communicative Competence: Foundations and Approaches towards a Fusion
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: One of the core developments of globalisation lies in the increased cooperation and communication across cultures. With this, the integrated competencies in foreign languages and intercultural communication are considered to be keys to successfully engaging and participating in modern life and society. The field of foreign language education is seen as a fundamental building block in fostering intercultural communicative competence (ICC). The dual focussed nature of CLIL-classrooms, i.e. the merging of a foreign language with content subject matter, seems to provide an ideal environment to initiate intercultural learning: content is never culturally neutral. Analysing, (re)constructing, comparing, contrasting and relativising one’s own cultural perspective and foreign cultural perspectives are essential elements in the development of intercultural competence. The ability to then shift and mediate between these cultural perspectives is a core objective in the intercultural learning process. Within rich CLIL environments a multitude of impulses may arise, which in turn lead to an exploration of different cultural viewpoints and, subsequently, enable shifts between these.
Author: Sudhoff, Julian
Institution: University of Duisburg-Essen
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2337951865