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Comunicarea interculturală şi transferul cultural în procesul de învăţare a unei limbi străine
Intercultural Communication And Cultural Transfer In The Foreign Language Learning Process

Author(s): Maria Muscan
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: foreign language learning; intercultural communication; cultural transfer; cultural background.

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural communication and cultural transfer in foreign language learning primarily presupposes good knowledge of your own cultural background as well as a definition of the term “foreign” in the syntagm “foreign language”. The cultural transfer begins long before the first class of learning a foreign language. This is evident in the form of various prejudices. Starting with their first “Guten Tag”, “Hello” or “Bonjour”, learners engage in a deconstruction of these prejudices. The dissemination/ presentation of their own culture as well as of the other foreign culture thus become obligatory components of the language teaching process.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 159-169
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian