Session 10: Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)

Question 1

What is the ICC?

Answer 1

Refers to the ability to understand cultures, including your own, and use this understanding to communicate with people from other cultures successfully

Question 2

Why is linguistic and cultural diversity important according to the Council of Europe?

Answer 2

Valuable resource that should be protected and developed to promote mutual understanding and intercultural exchange

Question 3

How can communication barriers in intercultural interactions be overcome?

Answer 3

Through education that views diversity as an asset and by improving knowledge of modern European languages

Question 4

What are three historical language teaching methods?

Answer 4

• Grammar-translation method
• Audiolingual method
• Communicative approach

Question 5

What are the five core competencies of communicative competence?

Answer 5

1. grammatical
2. discourse
3. strategic
4. sociocultural
5. mediation

Question 6

What are the three levels in the new ICC model?

Answer 6

1. Cognitive level: knowledge, stereotypes, interactive processes
2. Educational level: cultural diversity, reviewing perspectives
3. Affective level: action, mediation, awareness

Question 7

What skills are essential for ICC?

Answer 7

• critical thinking
• linking ideas
• integrative thinking
• appropriate interaction

Question 8

What attitudes support good cultural communication?

Answer 8

• tolerance
• openness
• respect
• willingness
• appropriate behavior