Intercultural Competence to Maintain the Nation’s Identity

DOI

10.2991/acec-18.2018.104How to use a DOI?

Keywords

element; intercultural competence; nation’s identity; strategy

Abstract

Learning a foreign language contains not only linguistics elements but also cultural elements. Introduce and teach a new culture that contains different perception, values and way of life from the culture of learner may cause the problems. Therefore, learning a foreign language should understand foreign cultures. The problem is not all foreign language learners understand it. Learn new culture could cause misunderstanding or even vitiate the local or national culture. That’s why the intercultural competence is important for the learner to have tolerance to a foreign culture and enhance their own culture. This study aims to investigate the elements of intercultural competence and strategy to develop intercultural competence for learners of foreign languages, especially French. Field studies method employed in this paper. Samples were observed in this study were 30 students of the French Language Study Program in Universitas Negeri Semarang. Data was collected by class observations, focus group discussion and interview. The result of this study reveals that intercultural competence consists of perceptions of elements, verbal and non-verbal elements. Perceptions elements involve cognitive competence and competence emotive. Thus the strategies are developed by considering the language competence including verbal and non-verbal elements and psychological maturity of the learner.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Diah Vitri Widayanti
AU  - Fathur Rokhman
AU  - Ida Zulaeha
AU  - Sri Rejeki Urip
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Intercultural Competence to Maintain the Nation’s Identity
BT  - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 454
EP  - 457
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.104
DO  - 10.2991/acec-18.2018.104
ID  - Widayanti2018/11
ER  -