Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Intercultural theories, for example third places, liminality, discourse approaches and transcultural flows, and how these relate to globalisation and lingua franca 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
- Nonverbal aspects of intercultural communication,
- Constructions and negotiations of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including stereotypes of “native” and “other” cultures,
- Key concepts in culture and language teaching, including intercultural communicative competence, cultural awareness and intercultural awareness and intercultural citizenship education.
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,
- The ability to write academic assignments in an appropriate style and format.
- Work and communicate with deeper understanding with people from different cultural backgrounds in real life situations,
- Develop your own teaching approaches and materials based on an understanding of language and culture in intercultural communication.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Describe and evaluate the relevance of different pedagogic approaches to intercultural communication and language teaching/training in a variety of 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,
- Make connections between theories of intercultural communication and your own intercultural experiences,
- Define intercultural competency in terms of empathy, cultural adaptability, cultural relativisation, negotiation and mediation,
- Problematise definitions of culture and language in intercultural communication, especially in global lingua franca communication contexts,
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 46 |
Completion of assessment task | 32 |
Lecture | 24 |
Follow-up work | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
On-line journals, for example the ‘Journal of Intercultural Communication’.
Textbooks
Byram, M (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Baker, Will (2015). Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca: rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication. De Gruyter Mouton.
Will Baker and Tomokazu Ishikawa (2021). Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes. Abingdon: Routledge.
Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: essays and reflections. Multilingual Matters.
Holliday, A., Hyde, M. & Kullman, J (2017). Intercultural communication: An advanced resource book. London and New York: Routledge.
Kramsch, C. (1993). Context and culture in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hua, Z. (2019). Exploring intercultural communication: language in action.. Routledge.
Kramsch, C. (1998). Language and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural communication: a critical introduction. Edinburgh University Press.
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.
Scollon, R., and Scollon, S.W., Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Risager, K (2007). Language and culture pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Pennycook, A. (2007). Global Englishes and transcultural flows. London: Routledge.
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