2.1 Defining culture and Culture
2.2 Cultural awareness
2.3 Intercultural communication
2.4 A review of research
2.5 References

2 Theoretical background    

Ildikó Lázár

This section aims to clarify the meaning of the most frequently used technical terms that feature in this publication as well as to review the research on the role and status of intercultural communication in language teaching and learning. The section entitled Planning Intercultural Communication Workshops will help you organize and design intercultural communication courses or workshops, including a description of the essential content areas that need to be covered and the recommended methods that can be successfully used in language teaching and language teacher education in order to develop intercultural competence. If you are familiar with the terms Culture vs. culture, cultural awareness, acculturation, culture shock, and intercultural competence as well as the most important research publications on the perceived role and current status of intercultural communication, you may wish to skip this theoretical background section in order to plunge right into the theoretical and practical issues of planning, materials and assessment.

2.1 Defining culture and Culture
2.2 Cultural awareness and the process of acculturation
2.3 Intercultural communication and intercultural communicative competence in language teaching
2.4 A review of research on intercultural competence in language teaching
2.5 References