THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT BETWEEN HOMOGENEITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT BETWEEN HOMOGENEITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Summary/Abstract: Learning foreign languages has a special situation when it comes to the formation of a modern individuality whose existence is always confronted with diversity and differences. When acquiring a foreign language, there is the permanent contact with a new culture, more or less different than one’s own. Thus, learning and teaching foreign languages must take into consideration two coordinates: linguistic competencies and cultural competencies. Such knowledge is applicable when interacting, when the two parts involve act together that is when they communicate. The process of learning and teaching foreign languages represents an intercultural dialogue in which people achieve the ability to cope with the existence through diversity. The present article presents, after analyzing the data that have been obtained empirically, the way in which intercultural dimension is perceived by the subjects involved in the process of learning and teaching foreign languages.

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