Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Tourist and the Sojoumer
Teaching and Assessment
InterculturaICommunicativeCompetence
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Framework
1 Defining and Describing Intercultural Communicative Competence Introduction
Communicating Across Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries
Communication and Interaction
Teaching Intercultural Communication in Context
Assessment in Context of Intercultural Communicative Competence
2 AModelforlnterculturaICommunicative Competence
Introduction
Describing Intercultural Communication and the InterculturaISpeaker
Attitudes
Knowledge
Skills
Intercultural Communication in Operation
Acquiring Intercultural Communicative Competence in anEducationaISetting
Relating InterculturalCompetence to Communication
InterculturaICompetence Defined in Terms of Objectives
TheDevelopmentalFactor
3 Objectives for Teaching. Leaming and Assessmertt
Introduction
Formulating Teaching, Leaming and Assessment Objectives
Acquiring Intercultural Competence
A Comprehensive Model of Intercultural
Communicative Competence
4 Curriculumlssues
Introduction
Concepts of Progression
A Threshold of Intercultural Communicative Competence?
Planning a Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence.
An Example: Teaching French in an East Coast Region oftheUSA
5 Assessment
Introduction
Assessing the Five savoirs
Purposes forAssessment
Assessing Levels of Intercultural Communicative
Competence
Conclusion
Conclusion
Intercultural Communicative Competence and lingua franca Foreign Language Leaming
References