3: Incorporating intercultural communicative competence into the languages classroom

09/17/19 • 17 min

EPisodes: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Philippa Kruger, Global Head of Languages, chats to Juliet Kennedy, an experienced language teacher, researcher, and professional expert at Future Learning Solutions. Together they discuss intercultural communicative language teaching and suggest practical ideas on how to implement it in your classroom.

Acronyms used in this podcast:
TPDL = Teacher Professional Development for Languages
iCLT = Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching
NCEA = National Certificate of Educational Achievement, the main national qualification for secondary school students in New Zealand.
TKI = Te Kete Ipurangi. Resource centre provided by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

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EPisodes: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 3: Incorporating intercultural communicative competence into the languages classroom

Transcript

Philippa Kruger:

Welcome to our third EPisodes Podcast where we explore teaching and learning in a digital age. My name is Philippa Kruger and I'm the head of languages at Education Perfect.

Philippa Kruger:

Today we are going to be exploring intercultural communicative language teaching and I have the pleasure of interviewing Juliet Kennedy who is an expert in this field. Juliet is an experienced language teacher and researcher, and has done extensive research in this area.