PROMICANJE INTERKULTURALNIH KOMUNIKACIJSKIH KOMPETENCIJA U NASTAVI STRANOG JEZIKA
PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Author(s): Alema Fazlić
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, School education
Published by: UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU – PEDAGOŠKI FAKULTET
Keywords: competences in teaching; intercultural communication competence; teaching contents; foreign languages;
Summary/Abstract: It is indisputable that language and culture are closely connected and that language is adopted side by side with culture and it is essentially related to it. Modern approaches to language teaching are referred to efforts to get students in the context of foreign language learning apart from communication and intercultural competence. If our schools want to follow trends in life and education in multilingual and multicultural Europe, then the curriculum of foreign languages at all levels of education must include intercultural communication competencies. The main aim of our research was to gain insight into the 326representation of the culture elements in the teaching of foreign languages and their influence on the intercultural communication competences of pupils in higher grades of the elementary school, and also to find out the most common ways in which the teachers incorporate and promote intercultural communication skills in teaching process through different teaching contents. The research was conducted in three primary schools in the area of HerzegovinaNeretva Canton, Mostar Municipality: Elementary school "Mustafa Ejubović-Šejh Jujo", Elementary school "Vrapčići" and Elementary school "Gnojnice" on a sample of 294 students of the eighth and ninth grade and 15 foreign language teachers (English, German and Turkish). The following methods have been used: the method of theoretical analysis and synthesis and the empirical-nonexperimental method (survey), comparative and descriptive method. The research has shown that intercultural content is largely represented in foreign language teaching but it is mainly presented through the textbooks and that our schools have begun, although still insufficiently, to engage with contemporary trends in education which promote intercultural approach in teaching.

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