Yıl: 2021 Cilt: 15 Sayı: 2 Sayfa Aralığı: 330 - 347 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509 İndeks Tarihi: 29-07-2022

Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners

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Interaction, communication, and cooperation among different cultures are no longer optional skills but must competencies for professional contexts all around the globe in the 21st century. As English is the medium of professional encounters in today’s world, foreign language teaching is responsible for developing these competencies from the early years of education. This results in culture being an important component of foreign language classes, which puts a heavy responsibility on teachers’ shoulders. Although they may show a sincere effort to integrate culture into lessons, their attempt mostly stays at a basic level focusing on superficial information shared in the language teaching coursebooks published by the global or local publishers. Thus, integrating culture and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) into foreign language teaching needs to be addressed in pre-service teacher education. This paper reports an action research study where a teacher educator investigates her own practice in integrating ICC into a pre-service teacher education session on teaching English to young learners. Thus, the study aims to explain how effective a training session can be in achieving its ICC goals and discover what teacher candidates think about integrating culture and ICC into foreign language teaching based on their training session experience.
Anahtar Kelime: Intercultural Communicative Competence Action Research Pre-service Teacher Education Teaching English to Young Learners

Kültürlerarası İletişim Yetkinliğinin Çocuklar için Öğretmen Eğitimine Dahil Edilmesi

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Farklı kültürler arasında etkileşim, iletişim ve iş birliği 21. yüzyılda profesyonel bağlamlar için artık zorunlu yeterliliklerdir. İngilizce, günümüz dünyasında mesleki karşılaşmaların ortamı olduğu için, yabancı dil öğretimi, eğitimin ilk yıllarından itibaren bu yeterliliklerin geliştirilmesinden sorumludur. Bu da kültürün yabancı dil derslerinin önemli bir bileşeni olmasına neden olmakta ve öğretmenlerin omuzlarına ağır bir sorumluluk yüklemektedir. Öğretmenler, derslerine kültürü dahil etmek için samimi bir çaba gösterseler de girişimleri çoğunlukla küresel veya yerel yayıncılar tarafından hazırlanan dil öğretimi ders kitaplarında paylaşılan yüzeysel bilgilere dayanmaktadır. Bu nedenle, hizmet öncesi öğretmen eğitimine kültür ve kültürlerarası iletişim yeterliliğinin dahil edilmesi önemlidir. Bu makale, bir öğretmen eğitimcisinin bu yeterliliği çocuklara İngilizce öğretmeye yönelik bir hizmet öncesi öğretmen eğitimi oturumuna entegre ettiği uygulamasının araştırıldığı bir eylem araştırması üzerinedir. Çalışma, kültürlerarası iletişim yeterliliği hedeflerine ulaşmada bir eğitim oturumunun ne kadar etkili olabileceğini açıklamayı ve öğretmen adaylarının bu eğitim oturumu deneyimlerine dayanarak kültür ve kültürlerarası iletişim yeterliliğini yabancı dil öğretimine dahil etme konusundaki düşündüklerini keşfetmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
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APA ŞALLI-ÇOPUR D (2021). Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15(2), 330 - 347. 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
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MLA ŞALLI-ÇOPUR Deniz Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol.15, no.2, 2021, ss.330 - 347. 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
AMA ŞALLI-ÇOPUR D Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2021; 15(2): 330 - 347. 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
Vancouver ŞALLI-ÇOPUR D Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2021; 15(2): 330 - 347. 10.47777/cankujhss.1047509
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ISNAD ŞALLI-ÇOPUR, Deniz. "Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence into Teacher Education for Young Learners". Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15/2 (2021), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1047509