Developing intercultural communicative skills

Categories of cultural action	Pari’s image of her countrypeople
Pari’s image of Michael
Statements about culture		‘They think we are alien to Western products’
Global position & politics	The West presents a Centre perception of the world
Cultural resources		Western products are produced entirely by Western society
Underlying universal processes
Finding a way to align herself with the views of others

WEEK 17
Designing materials for teaching intercultural issues (triangle AIM: language, pedagogy, culture)

Handout 1 (a)


Handout 1 (b)
A model of foreign language education

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  Language Learning It refers to the learning of the foreign language. It now pays more attention to the language use and its context with an approach of CLT.
  
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  Language Awareness: It presents the opportunity for learners to analyze and understand the relationship between language and cultural phenomena. This component, learners' language skills with the understanding of a foreign culture, is pragmatic awareness which helps learners to use the language appropriately in specific situations (Eslami-Rasekh. 2005).
  
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