Examinando por Materia "Intercultural competence"

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    Internship at la ribera school: bilingualism for peace program
    (2023-02-02) Lobo Petro, Juan Guillermo; Yurisan Tordecilla Zumaqué
    This paper is designated to report my internship experience in the Bilingualism for Peace Program. My internship was carried out through face-to-face classes, at the Institución Educativa La Ribera (IE La Ribera) in Monteria. It consisted of teaching English lessons to a pre-Intermediate level, and an Upper-Intermediate Level with students from 8,9, and 10th grade. The problem identified turned out to be that the course curriculum seemed to be excessively focused more on teaching about the language itself, than on addressing important local and global social issues through the language as conflict resolution and human relationships, which is another objective of the program. Therefore, the main purpose of this internship was to promote the development of communicative competencies that allow the students to deal with issues relevant to a globalized, integrated, and competitive world through the design of lesson plans based on an approach of Task-Based Language Teaching, under the theory of Education for Peace, and Intercultural Competence. The lessons used English as a bridge for themes in classes that addressed controversial topics such as Family Issues, Racism, and Gender Equality with the help of a United Nations project to trigger attitudes for a new generation of peace-and-changemaker citizens. This paper discusses the pedagogies, the program where the internship took place, methodologies, results, conclusions, recommendations, and limitations of this meaningful process in which I had personal and professional growth of great value.
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    The representation of the intercultural competence in the Colombian language textbook for 8th grade school students
    (2023-05-04) Salamanca Salgado, Yurys Yulieth; Paz Wecheck, Martha
    One of the goals in Colombian Education system should be the development of Intercultural competence which has long been studied for many years by prominent authors and researches such as: Byram, Risager, Kramsch, Short, Liddicoat, Dervin, Deardoff, among others. They have argued how intercultural communication fosters understanding and awareness of culturally mediated communication phenomenon, in this sense, this research seeks to analyze the representation of interculturality in the Colombian language textbook Way to Go 8th grade through the systematic analysis of 42 reading activities as the primary sample to be studied using content analysis. The data was analyzed using a matrix to identify what aspects of the ICC (Intercultural Communicative Competence) were focused and promoted through the activities. Results indicate that the most activities represent and tend to promote attitudes, knowledge, and awareness as part of Byram’s ICC model. Consequently, the emphasis of the reading activities in terms of both content and purpose, is also placed and are expected to develop these aspects of ICC.