Pedagogical Objectives Of Teaching Intercultural Communication Competence
Pedagogical Objectives Of Teaching Intercultural Communication Competence

Summary/Abstract: In the contemporary educational system we can remark a change of paradigm towards active learning and competence-based education. However, we should not understand that this is a radical change and that education has abandoned teaching knowledge in favour of competences. This is impossible, since competences include knowledge in their structure, and teaching has different functions, among which one remains that of transmitting knowledge. The cultural diversity found at educational level is an extraordinary source of progress and innovation regarding the teaching methodology and the academic communication. This diversity should be valued and used as a resource, so that academic results could appear and, along with them, the student’s/teacher’s satisfaction. This article explores the foreign students’ perceptions regarding what makes effective communication in an intercultural academic environment. The findings show differences according to the culture of origin, which lead us to the conclusion that intercultural communication competence could be built in a multicultural classroom by setting specific objectives related to comparing cultures and raising students’awareness about the importance of differences as enriching experience.

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