KNOWING, BEING AND DOING – TOWARDS THE INTERCULTURAL APPROACH IN ELT
KNOWING, BEING AND DOING – TOWARDS THE INTERCULTURAL APPROACH IN ELT

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural language education has redefined the agenda of modern languages all over the world. It has also begun to impact on English Language Teaching. An intercultural approach prioritizes the need for a critical, multicultural curriculum, which actively educates and facilitates the construction of learners' personal and social identities in the process of developing their language skills. Its major influences in ELT refer to intercultural competencies, academic and social benefits of intercultural learning, the use of ethnographic research to implement ELT, issues in adapting curriculum to situational learning needs, and designing tasks in an intercultural classroom. The aim of the present paper is to prove that the development of intercultural skills in foreign language teaching becomes more effective through careful instruction and the gradual process of raising learners’ awareness of multiplicity of perspectives. By handling a selection of language tasks students can experience diversity and will eventually analyze their behaviour in order to adjust their language roles to new circumstances. The materials designed for proper intercultural training included essays, projects and portfolios.

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