Bringing Culture into a Foreign Language Class: A Way to Enhance Intercultural Education in Multi-ethnic Groups

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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.

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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  - 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
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