Abstract
In this globalization era, teaching English has to also involve intercultural aspects in order that students can develop their awareness towards the differences of the culture of the target language. The intercultural teaching and learning English can be corporated with reading skill activities as suggested by Usó-Juan & MartÃnez-Flor (2008). This study was a qualitative study which potrayedreading activities to assist intercultural teaching and learning English. The data were taken with observation of teaching learning in the classroom with 25 students of 2nd semester at a state university in Karawang, West Java. 6 students were also selected to have interview in order to know their response and understanding. Finaly, there were some reading activities, such as critical reading and cultural bump, conducted in the classroom that could quite effectively improve the students’ intercultural awareness. Some students also responded by giving positive statements about reading skill activities so their intercultural understanding could improve. However, implementing these activities were not an easy task because the teacher needs to understand the theoritical concept of intercultural language learning.
Highlights
English language teaching has incorporated with intercultural communicative competence
The data taken from various techniques including observations and interviews were gathered to be identified and analyzed thematically and later to be displayed and made a conclusion. This result and discussion are based on the research questions mentioned in the previous chapter, namely: A) How are the students’ reading activities in intercultural English learning? and B) How are the students’ responses to learning reading activities?there are two main findings taken from the data
The data finding shows that there are various intercultural reading activities performed in the teaching and learning process
Summary
English language teaching has incorporated with intercultural communicative competence. The students are taught English language itself and they are taught how to communicate with other people from different backgrounds or culture effectively and appropiately in many ways. As we know that in English language teaching itself, there are four skills that have to be mastered by students namely speaking, writing, listening and reading skill. The last one mentioned is an important skill that should be learned by students so that they can be a good and critical students especially in seeing differences among cultures. Intercultural English learning is very possible to be brought with reading skills. It can improve students’ reading skill while they learn other cultures and make them aware how to use language aproppiately
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