Desarrollo y evaluación de la competencia intercultural en la clase de E/LEDiseño de un curso formativo de mejora

Abstract

Over the past few years, the use of the Communicative Approach has increased significantly inside foreign language classrooms. Language professionals have begun to evince a deeper interest in the development of the Communicative Competence, which requires the design of activities that portray the reality and the speakers’ everyday lives. As a result, language teachers are now more aware of the necessity of introducing a higher level of cultural contents in the classroom so as to reproduce more authentic and consistent communicative situations. However, instead of teaching cultural facts such as literature, history or politics, the tendency nowadays is to teach facts that belong to the lowbrow culture, namely the aspects that help students to use the language more effectively. Therefore, our main goal is to promote the development of an intercultural competence that can be both, observed and assessed in a non-immersion language context. By using the right methodology and data analysis, we expect to account for the needs and interests of students and thus, design a course that provides learners with the necessary tools to use the foreign language in a consistent and responsible manner outside the classroom.