21st Century Language and Communication Skills: Intercultural English Teaching  

Oleh:

Hapsari, Yulia ; Ratri, Devinta Puspita

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 412-421.
Topik: 21st century TEFL; Intercultural language learning; types of cultural materials
Fulltext: hal 412.pdf (15.04MB)

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Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language in the 21stcentury is full of challenge and opportunity. As the world grows smaller through communication, the coexistence of people from diversecultures, languages, and social circumstances has become the rule rather thanthe exception, demanding new levels of tolerance, understanding, and patience. Into this field of challenge and change, teachers should provide foundation onwhich all students must build competence and flexibility needed for success in the 21stcentury through intercultural language learning - the inseparability of language and culture to build intercultural communication in an increasingly multicultural world. Intercultural communicative competence refers to the skill to understand and interact with people with their complex identities and their individuality (Byram, Gribkova & Starkey, 2002, p. 10). Today, English teachers have a lot of choices in terms of textbooks, yet many of them still rely on textbooks that focus students' attention on grammatical structures, and on practice in isolation while the teaching of English should consider both language and its culture. McKay (2000) identifies three types of cultural materials: target culture materials, learners' own culture materials and international target culture materials. International target language materialscover a variety of knowledge from different cultures all over the world using the target language (McKay, pp. 9-10). Yet, students' own culture should be discussed integratedly with target culture. However, teachers should keep in mind that English is an international language, and culture is an aid to motivate our students rather than something to be taught.

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