Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Work and communicate with deeper understanding with people from different cultural backgrounds in real life situations,
- 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.
- The ability to write academic assignments in an appropriate style and format.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- 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.
- 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,
- Constructions and negotiations of cultural identities in intercultural communication, including stereotypes of “native” and “other” cultures,
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- 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,
- Illustrate, contrast and explain differences in both verbal and nonverbal communication in and across different cultures, as emergent resources in intercultural communication,
- Describe and evaluate the relevance of different pedagogic approaches to intercultural communication and language teaching/training in a variety of contexts.
- Problematise definitions of culture and language in intercultural communication, especially in global lingua franca communication contexts,
- Define intercultural competency in terms of empathy, cultural adaptability, cultural relativisation, negotiation and mediation,
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 24 |
Completion of assessment task | 32 |
Lecture | 24 |
Follow-up work | 24 |
Wider reading or practice | 46 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
On-line journals, for example the ‘Journal of Intercultural Communication’.
Textbooks
Scollon, R., and Scollon, S.W., Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Holliday, A., Hyde, M. & Kullman, J (2017). Intercultural communication: An advanced resource book. London and New York: Routledge.
Byram, M. et al (2001). Developing intercultural competence in practice. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Kramsch, C. (1993). Context and culture in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hua, Z. (2019). Exploring intercultural communication: language in action.. Routledge.
Risager, K (2007). Language and culture pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: essays and reflections. Multilingual Matters.
Pennycook, A. (2007). Global Englishes and transcultural flows. London: Routledge.
Hall, S. & Du Gay, P (1996). Questions of cultural identity. London: Sage Publications.
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural communication: a critical introduction. Edinburgh University Press.
Will Baker and Tomokazu Ishikawa (2021). Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes. Abingdon: Routledge.
Baker, Will (2015). Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca: rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication. De Gruyter Mouton.
Kramsch, C. (1998). Language and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Byram, M (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevedon: 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