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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE

Teenagers in Europe encounter culturally and linguistically diverse societies, both inface to face contact and in web communication. This is a challenge and chance forwhich school can prepare them: to increase intercultural competence while at the sametime acquiring foreign language skills needed for successful and appropriateintercultural communication.ICEurope – ‘Intercultural Communication in Europe’ – sets out to gain insights intoforeign language and culture learning within a web-enhanced English classroom.Intercultural communication (IC), foreign language learning (FLL) and elearning arecombined to develop intercultural foreign language competence in authentic elearningenvironments.ICEurope focuses on enabling learners to use their English as a lingua franca (ELF) fornegotiating cultural concepts in intercultural contact situations. Pupils become aware ofthe dynamic relationships between language and culture and learn to use their ownEnglish for understanding and expressing lingua-cultural concepts.Contact is established by web collaboration via Moodle between teenagers fromBulgaria, Hungary, Italy and Turkey. The approach is based on a constructivist andsocio-cultural view of content and language integrated learning (CLIL); it encouragesinteractive and integrated practice in classrooms and beyond. A model of language andculture learning and learning scenarios highlights how collaborative interaction inintercultural online activities fosters intercultural foreign language skills. ICEurope alsoaims at increasing digital media skills for the purposes of intercultural language learning.Results will be published to provide teachers and trainers with the theoretical,methodological and technological knowledge needed to use web technologies forteaching intercultural foreign language skills. The project aims at an increasedawareness of the potentials of web media and will provide foreign language teachers,trainers and government bodies with guidelines and innovative teaching materials.

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