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Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners
Abstract
Interaction, communication, and cooperation among different cultures are no longer
optional skills but must competencies for professional contexts all around the globe in
the 21st century. As English is the medium of professional encounters in today’s world,
foreign language teaching is responsible for developing these competencies from the
early years of education. This results in culture being an important component of
foreign language classes, which puts a heavy responsibility on teachers’ shoulders.
Although they may show a sincere effort to integrate culture into lessons, their attempt
mostly stays at a basic level focusing on superficial information shared in the language
teaching coursebooks published by the global or local publishers. Thus, integrating
culture and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) into foreign language
teaching needs to be addressed in pre-service teacher education. This paper reports an
action research study where a teacher educator investigates her own practice in
integrating ICC into a pre-service teacher education session on teaching English to
young learners. Thus, the study aims to explain how effective a training session can be
in achieving its ICC goals and discover what teacher candidates think about integrating
culture and ICC into foreign language teaching based on their training session
experience.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Language Studies, Other Fields of Education
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
December 26, 2021
Submission Date
May 29, 2021
Acceptance Date
July 19, 2021
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Volume: 15 Number: 2
APA
Şallı Çopur, D. (2021). Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15(2), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
AMA
1.Şallı Çopur D. Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. CUJHSS. 2021;15(2):330-347. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
Chicago
Şallı Çopur, Deniz. 2021. “Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15 (2): 330-47. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1047509.
EndNote
Şallı Çopur D (December 1, 2021) Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15 2 330–347.
IEEE
[1]D. Şallı Çopur, “Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners”, CUJHSS, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 330–347, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509.
ISNAD
Şallı Çopur, Deniz. “Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15/2 (December 1, 2021): 330-347. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1047509.
JAMA
1.Şallı Çopur D. Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. CUJHSS. 2021;15:330–347.
MLA
Şallı Çopur, Deniz. “Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp. 330-47, doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1047509.
Vancouver
1.Deniz Şallı Çopur. Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. CUJHSS. 2021 Dec. 1;15(2):330-47. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1047509