La conciencia transcultural y la introspección en el aula de lenguas extranjeras Una mirada hacia la noción de saber comprender de Michael Byram desde la perspectiva transcultural
Transcultural awareness and introspection in a language classroom Approaching Michael Byram’s savoir comprendre from a transcultural perspective

Author(s): Justyna Hadaś
Subject(s): Language studies, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: transcultural awareness; cultural awareness; critical incidents; intercultural communicative competence; introspection; transcultural education; intercultural learning
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to bring attention to the importance of raising awareness of one’s own culture (C1) in foreign language education and its significance for developing intercultural skills and cultural awareness. Introspection will be presented as an act of self-examination, self-inquiry or reflecting on self: a strategy necessary for developing an ability to understand the other and a technique that can be used within the language classroom context. The author will be looking at introspection as a metacognitive act, carried out by a learner and directed towards his/her own actions (ways of interacting and communicating) as well as his/her internal states, aimed at searching ethnocentric perspectives in the context of reflecting on intercultural communication, especially the comparing processes. Michael Byram’s Intercultural Communicative Competence model will be used as theoretical framework and it will be related to the notion of transcultural awareness in order to present arguments in favor of introspection and draw some pedagogic recommendations for its use.

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