Naslov
Fostering cross-cultural communicative competence in Business English classes through literary short stories

Autori
Radmilo Derado, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts. IIIrd International Conference LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: Past, Present, Future / Cakeljić, Vesna - Beograd : Sveučilište u Beogradu - Fakultet organizacionih nauka, 2014, 42-42

ISBN
978-86-7680-301-9

Skup
IIi International Conference: LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: Past, Present, Future

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 26.09.2014. - 27.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Business English; cross-cultural communicative competence; literary short stories; Constructivist model; inquiry-based approach; transactional approach.

Sažetak
Globalization and intercultural communication are two of the most important phenomena that characterize the contemporary labour market. Concepts like multiculturality, multiliteracy, and intercultural/cross-cultural education have entered the LSP arena requiring teachers to increasingly focus their attention to developing learners´ cross-cultural communicative competencies. Those entail the possession of a broad set of attitudes, knowledge and skills which should accompany linguistic, socio-linguistic and discourse competence. Departing from the notion that there is a strong need for developing techniques for raising LSP learners´ intercultural communicative competence for today´s global environment, the paper proposes two constructivist approaches (the Inquiry-based approach and the Transactional approach) to authentic literary short stories as a means to engage business English learners in the activities such as negotiation of meaning, interpreting, relating, and developing attitudes towards increasing cross-cultural tolerance. The study was carried out in two advanced, third-year business English classes over a period of two semesters. The results of the study showed that the approach increased the learners´ awareness of diverse cross-cultural issues raised by the analysed texts, developed their ability to discuss content related to the issue, enhanced critical thinking and raised the learners´ ability to explore cultural stereotypes and to challenge assumptions about other cultures.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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