Abstract

ALVAREZ VALENCIA, José Aldemar  and  BONILLA MEDINA, Ximena. Addressing Culture in the EFL Classroom: A Dialogic Proposal. profile [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.2, pp.151-170. ISSN 1657-0790.

Language teaching has gone from a linguistic centered approach towards a lingo-cultural experience in which learning a language goes hand in hand with the understanding of not only the target culture, but the learner's own culture. This paper attempts to describe and reflect upon a collaborative and dialogical experience carried out between two teachers of the Languages Program of Universidad de la Salle, in Bogotá. The bilateral enrichment of such a pedagogical experience helped the teachers to improve their language teaching contexts and prompted the construction of a theoretical proposal to enhance intercultural awareness. It also opened the way for the development of critical intercultural competence in fl (foreign language) learners.

Keywords : Interculturality; critical intercultural awareness; critical intercultural competence; dialogical process.

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