What is culture?
This aspect of culture includes everyday behaviors and practices like eating habits, gestures, or daily routines.
What is small-c culture?
The act of stepping outside one's own cultural perspective to view things from another’s point of view.
What is decentring?
An educational approach that integrates ecological awareness with cultural and language learning.
What is ecodidactics?
This term refers to how people from one cultural group often describe or generalize another group, based on perceived common behaviors or characteristics.
What are stereotypes?
This metaphor shows that only a small portion of culture is visible, while most is hidden beneath the surface.
What is the cultural iceberg model?
This concept refers to the use of English as a common means of communication between speakers of different first languages, often with a focus on intelligibility rather than native norms.
What is English as a lingua franca?
This approach to lesson design begins with defining the desired learning outcomes first, then planning instructional activities that support learners in accomplishing a target task.
What is backward planning?
According to Byram’s model of intercultural competence, this component involves openness, curiosity, and readiness to suspend judgment.
What are attitudes?
This educational approach aims to prepare learners to understand global issues, think critically, and act responsibly in a connected world.
What is global learning?
This method in involves learning about real or fictionalized scenarios / stories of people from various cultural contexts to avoid stereotypical representations (all British people are ...).
What is the case study approach?
In Byram’s framework, this refers to gaining an understanding of cultural practices. It involves facts but also goes beyond traditional LK.
What is cultural knowledge?
The ability to use language appropriately in different social and cultural contexts, beyond just grammar and vocabulary.
What is pragmatic competence?
This quality refers to materials, tasks, or interactions that reflect real-world communication and cultural context rather than being simplified or artificial.
What is authenticity?
Short descriptions of intercultural misunderstandings used for reflection and analysis in EFL and intercultural training.
What are critical incidents?
This term refers to the idea that cultures are not isolated, but interconnected and constantly influencing one another.
What is transculturality?