INTERCULTURAL APPROACH AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
INTERCULTURAL APPROACH AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: The first aim of this work is to measure the potential of interculturality in teaching and learning foreign languages. According to author’s strong opinion, speaking, using and comprehending a foreign language requires to go beyond the control of morphosyntactic and lexical structures, to include some crucial extra-linguistic aspects too that, if neglected, can produce serious problems in terms of mutual understanding: the use of voice, more or less accentuated prosody, time and pause management, kinesics, proxemics, etc.The second goal is to investigate the possible connection between intercultural approach and experiential learning. Such a connection would represent a strategy for reinforcing an integrated attitude to foreign languages, that combines formal, pragmatic, cultural, cognitive and emotional factors.

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