Student interest in cultural content of a foreign country

The paper presents results of a study on the interest of students of non-philological faculties (of universities in Serbia) in contents from foreign cultures and how high importance students attach to learning about the target culture in foreign language teaching and learning at non-philological fac...

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Autor principal:	Katarina Krželj
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	culture intercultural learning intercultural competence teaching foreign languages for speial purposes Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0093c3c8fc1047fb9ea6f6fca901741d2021-12-02T05:09:53ZStudent interest in cultural content of a foreign country10.21301/eap.v9i2.100353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/0093c3c8fc1047fb9ea6f6fca901741d2016-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/55https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801The paper presents results of a study on the interest of students of non-philological faculties (of universities in Serbia) in contents from foreign cultures and how high importance students attach to learning about the target culture in foreign language teaching and learning at non-philological faculties. The goal of modern foreign language teaching at non-philological faculties, in addition to the development of communicative competence in the profession, is also to develop pluricultural competence. In order to test the chances of attaining this goal, it is necessary to perform an analysis of the legislative framework in which teaching foreign languages for special purposes takes place, an analysis of learning aims and the possibility of developing cross-cultural sensitization. An analysis of the needs for and interests in the contents of the target culture must be precededed by an analysis of the specificities of intercultural learning and intercultural competence. Based on these results, it is possible to establish the correlation between the elements of the culture already present in the existing teaching material and the interests and needs of the target group which these materials are intended for.The data thus obtained will serve as a basis for defining the guidelines for selecting contents of the target culture, which, on one hand, will be based on methodological and didactical principles of interculturally oriented foreign language teaching, and on the other hand, will reflect the real needs and interests of the students from a number of non-philological faculties.Katarina KrželjUniversity of Belgradearticlecultureintercultural learningintercultural competenceteaching foreign languages for speial purposesAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 9, Iss 2 (2016)
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topic	culture intercultural learning intercultural competence teaching foreign languages for speial purposes Anthropology GN1-890
spellingShingle	culture intercultural learning intercultural competence teaching foreign languages for speial purposes Anthropology GN1-890 Katarina Krželj Student interest in cultural content of a foreign country
description	The paper presents results of a study on the interest of students of non-philological faculties (of universities in Serbia) in contents from foreign cultures and how high importance students attach to learning about the target culture in foreign language teaching and learning at non-philological faculties. The goal of modern foreign language teaching at non-philological faculties, in addition to the development of communicative competence in the profession, is also to develop pluricultural competence. In order to test the chances of attaining this goal, it is necessary to perform an analysis of the legislative framework in which teaching foreign languages for special purposes takes place, an analysis of learning aims and the possibility of developing cross-cultural sensitization. An analysis of the needs for and interests in the contents of the target culture must be precededed by an analysis of the specificities of intercultural learning and intercultural competence. Based on these results, it is possible to establish the correlation between the elements of the culture already present in the existing teaching material and the interests and needs of the target group which these materials are intended for.The data thus obtained will serve as a basis for defining the guidelines for selecting contents of the target culture, which, on one hand, will be based on methodological and didactical principles of interculturally oriented foreign language teaching, and on the other hand, will reflect the real needs and interests of the students from a number of non-philological faculties.
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Student interest in cultural content of a foreign country

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