Bringing Culture into a Foreign Language Class: A Way to Enhance Intercultural Education in Multi-ethnic Groups
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.001How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Intercultural education, Foreign language class, Multi-ethnic group
- Abstract
Cultural diversity is a contemporary reality. The present-date Russia is a land where different cultures co-exist. The Russian national culture itself is far from being homogenious, and the student society is also multicultural. At the same time, the level of cultural unawareness is quite high. Therefore, teachers at all levels are working towards implementing new approaches to education of their students so that they could develop intercultural competencies. The authors of the article describe some strategies of integrating intercultural and linguistic education in a multi-ethnic student group at a university. A foreign language course is believed to be a perfect environment for the students to learn about the cultural diversity and undergo transformative learning. In working with a multi-ethnic group, it has proved an efficient improvement to make a foreign language course both language- and human-oriented, so that, above the linguistic facts, students come to understand themselves as representatives of their culture, learn the target foreign language culture and recognize the notions representing the Russian national culture.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mariya Burlakova AU - Aleksei Mikhailov AU - Tatiana Burlakova PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/26 TI - Bringing Culture into a Foreign Language Class: A Way to Enhance Intercultural Education in Multi-ethnic Groups BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1 EP - 6 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211025.001 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.001 ID - Burlakova2021 ER -