Abstract

This study intends the validation of an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the beginning levels of German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English in the Modern Languages program at EAN University in Colombia. The design constituents: language integration, oral production, fieldwork activities, and a product/project gravitated around thematic units. The faculty application of the design is evidenced through annotated lesson plans together with the rationale for their classroom decision-making. The results indicate that an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence offers teachers and students a framework whose components acknowledge the participants’ diverse views and promote an intercultural learning environment in both relational and interpersonal terms.

Highlights

  • Universidad EAN is a Colombian university with undergraduate degrees in engineering, finance, business management, international business, economics, modern languages, and cultural management

  • This study intends the validation of an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the beginning levels of German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English in the Modern Languages program at EAN University in Colombia

  • The results indicate that an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence offers teachers and students a framework whose components acknowledge the participants’ diverse views and promote an intercultural learning environment in both relational and interpersonal terms

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Universidad EAN is a Colombian university with undergraduate degrees in engineering, finance, business management, international business, economics, modern languages, and cultural management. The program mission determines that professionals in modern languages will develop entrepreneurial aptitudes that help them contribute to the economic and social growth of people and organizations both at local and international levels. These capacities will be obtained through their active participation in projects that promote multilingual/multicultural development. These professionals will be part of the corporate world where languages are fundamental in the areas of communications, translations, and international businesses

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