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Fang Gao – Language and Intercultural Communication, 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…
Descriptors: Humanism, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Student Attitudes
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Porto, Melina; Zembylas, Michalinos – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
In this article we depart from a conceptualisation of foreign language teaching as intercultural citizenship in schools and universities. We extend this conceptualisation by suggesting that foreign language teaching can and should also sensitise students about issues of human suffering and cultivate empathy, solidarity, hospitality and inclusion.…
Descriptors: Empathy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Crosbie, Veronica – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
The capabilities approach offers a valuable analytical lens for exploring the challenge and complexity of intercultural dialogue in contemporary settings. The central tenets of the approach, developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, involve a set of humanistic goals including the recognition that development is a process whereby people's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction