Cultural Awareness Revisited: Updating for the 21st Century

Cultural awareness seems to be making a re-appearance in the language teaching and learning literature. In this workshop we will focus on the ‘new look’ cultural awareness – intercultural competence (ICC). We will situate its growing importance and discuss what it entails. We will also take a look at a selection of classroom materials and briefly consider assessment of ICC.

Also given at XXII Jornadas de TEA (Sociadad Canaria de Pofesorado de ingles), January, 2005; III Jornadas de Lenguas Modernas, Univerisdad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, May, 2005; XX Encuentro de professors de Inglés, Universidad de Otoño, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, September, 2005; TESOL Macedonia Thrace, Northern Greece, 13th National Convention, November, 2005