Overview
Lecturer
Teodora Iordăchescu
Seminar tutor
Teodora Iordăchescu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Philology - Masters
Field of study
English Language, Literature and Culture in European Context
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Lecture
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, Conversation, Cooperative learning, Debate, Team-based learning, Active learning systems, Active listening, Problem solving.
Entry requirements
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Aims
1. Introduce students to concepts, theories, principles and skills for understanding communication between persons from different cultural backgrounds and in different cultural contexts
2. Provide students with an opportunity to reflect on how cultural context influences identity construction and negotiation in intercultural communication
3. Explore the features of effective communication with people from different cultural backgrounds and in diverse contexts, in the broad framework of “native” and “other” cultures, as well in the more fluid and dynamic contexts of intercultural communication
Course contents
C1. Communication and applied linguistics
C2. Culture, communication, context and power
C3. Language, identity and intercultural communication
C4. Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics
C5. Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship
C6. Intercultural rhetoric and intercultural communication
C7. Nonverbal communication: the messages of emotion, action, space, and silence
C8. Speech acts, facework and politeness: relationship-building across cultures
C9. Gender, language, identity, and intercultural communication
C10. Cultural identity, representation and othering
C11. Other language learning, identity and intercultural communication in contexts of conflict
C12. Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space
C13. Beyond cultural categories: communication, adaptation and transformation
C14. Acculturating intergroup vitalities, accommodation and contact
Learning outcomes
1. By the end of the course students will be able to appropriately use of the conceptual and methodological schemata of humanities for a cross-disciplinary investigation of cultural events and situations
2. By the end of the course students will be able to describe the research methods specific to a cross-disciplinary investigation of cultural events and situations
3. By the end of the course students will be able to explain in a pluridisciplinary context complex cultural phenomena
4. By the end of the course students will be able to apply the optimum method for the study of a complex cultural phenomenon and to argument their choice
Assessment
Lecture, Conversation, Cooperative learning, Debate, Team-based learning, Active learning systems, Active listening, Problem solving
Recommended reading
Language and culture
Kramsch, C.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998
Intercultural communication: a discourse approach (3rd ed.)
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. B. K., & Jones, R. H.
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2012
Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence
Byram, M.
Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, 1997