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Developing ICC within the Activity Theory
Developing ICC within the Activity Theory

Author(s): Teresa Siek-Piskozub
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: activity theory; intercultural communicative competence; teacher education

Summary/Abstract: The major goal of the article is to introduce the Activity Theory as a framework for developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of prospective foreign language teach-ers with the example of students from the Faculty of English (FE) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. I will refer to the concept of ICC resulting from the evolution of the concept of language competence in which social and cultural components have become more prominent, and for which the reference to the mythical native speaker’s competence in the context of foreign language teaching has been questioned.

  • Issue Year: 44/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-162
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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