Developing communicative competence in L2 tertiary level students: remarks on culturally responsive teaching

• Authors: Jerzy Zybert , Iga Lehman
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Semiotic links exist among communication, culture, teaching, and learning and this has important implications for implementing culturally responsive teaching. The present paper provides some arguments in favour of creating culturally sensitive classrooms where students have an opportunity to acquire a broader cultural awareness which helps them to develop their intercultural communicative competence.

Keywords

PL

L2 teaching; L2 learning; academic communication; cultural values; identity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 267-275

Dates

published

2019-02-07

Contributors

author

Jerzy Zybert

author

Iga Lehman

• Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Warszawie

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/snp.2018.18.23