ERIC Number: EJ1418790
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1470-8477
EISSN: EISSN-1747-759X
Taking Innovative Humanising Pedagogy towards Thirdness: Sustaining the Development of Intercultural Competence
Fang Gao
Language and Intercultural Communication, v24 n2 p118-136 2024
To facilitate intercultural communicative competence, language learners are invited into the triadic capacity of Thirdness, where the social and critical interpretations of intercultural dialogue are explored. Little is known of the specific pedagogical stages to create such a terrain for the development of students' sustainable intercultural competence. Situated within a tertiary-level English classroom in China, this study reveals how teachers can employ five pedagogical stages and humanised pedagogy to decentre cultural imperialism and promote plural values, behaviours and ways of knowing, and how students relativise their own beliefs to those of the target language culture.
Descriptors: Humanism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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