Module overview
This module will combine a theoretical understanding of intercultural communication with reflections and evaluations of your own intercultural experiences and applications of this to pedagogic settings and other practical settings.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Constructions and negotiations of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including stereotypes of “native” and “other” cultures,
- Intercultural theories, for example third places, liminality, discourse approaches and transcultural flows, and how these relate to globalisation and lingua franca communication,
- Nonverbal aspects of intercultural communication,
- Key concepts in the relationships between communication, culture and language, for example linguistic relativity, culture as a social semiotic system, culture as discourse, and critical theories of culture and language
- Key concepts in culture and language teaching, including intercultural communicative competence, cultural awareness and intercultural awareness and intercultural citizenship education.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Make connections between theories of intercultural communication and your own intercultural experiences,
- Problematise definitions of culture and language in intercultural communication, especially in global lingua franca communication contexts,
- Illustrate, contrast and explain differences in both verbal and nonverbal communication in and across different cultures, as emergent resources in intercultural communication,
- Reflect on, describe and clarify the configuration of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including your own,
- Describe and evaluate the relevance of different pedagogic approaches to intercultural communication and language teaching/training in a variety of contexts.
- Define intercultural competency in terms of empathy, cultural adaptability, cultural relativisation, negotiation and mediation,
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Apply theories of intercultural communication to your own research and professional experience,
- Develop your own teaching approaches and materials based on an understanding of language and culture in intercultural communication.
- Work and communicate with deeper understanding with people from different cultural backgrounds in real life situations,
- The ability to write academic assignments in an appropriate style and format.
Syllabus
Topics covered will typically include:
1.Theories of culture and language
2.Theories of intercultural and transcultural communication
3.Identity and culture
4.Semiotics and multimodality in intercultural communication
5.Global languages and intercultural communication
6.Digital intercultural communication
7.Intercultural pragmatics
8.Intercultural communication, education, training and language teaching
9.Intercultural communication and ideology in education
10.Intercultural communicative competence and intercultural awareness
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Group work
Learning activities include
- Individual and/or team research
- Using on-line resources such as Blackboard
- Individual study
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 24 |
Wider reading or practice | 46 |
Follow-up work | 24 |
Completion of assessment task | 32 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
On-line journals, for example the ‘Journal of Intercultural Communication’.
Textbooks
Kramsch, C. (1993). Context and culture in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural communication: a critical introduction. Edinburgh University Press.
Baker, Will (2015). Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca: rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication. De Gruyter Mouton.
Risager, K (2007). Language and culture pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Pennycook, A. (2007). Global Englishes and transcultural flows. London: Routledge.
Hua, Z. (2019). Exploring intercultural communication: language in action.. Routledge.
Byram, M. et al (2001). Developing intercultural competence in practice. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Hall, S. & Du Gay, P (1996). Questions of cultural identity. London: Sage Publications.
Will Baker and Tomokazu Ishikawa (2021). Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes. Abingdon: Routledge.
Holliday, A., Hyde, M. & Kullman, J (2017). Intercultural communication: An advanced resource book. London and New York: Routledge.
Byram, M (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Scollon, R., and Scollon, S.W., Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kramsch, C. (1998). Language and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: essays and reflections. Multilingual Matters.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External