Where can I find suitable resources to support intercultural language teaching and learning?
Given that intercultural language teaching and learning is a perspective or a mindset, many of teachers’ current resources for classroom teaching remain useful. What may alter, however, is how these resources are used, the nature of teaching and interaction required in order to engage with them. Resources may include texts in either the target language or in English or both and may be written, oral or visual. Resources for language teaching can be seen as those intended for second language instruction (i.e. pedagogical purpose) and those created for use by the target language speaking community. Both types of resources are valuable stimuli for intercultural language teaching and learning as the nature, purpose and context of these resources can be explored and comparisons and connections can be made. Intercultural language teaching and learning aims to examine the cultural construction of language in texts, and assumes that all texts are culturally loaded. Given such an emphasis, it is
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