Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis and intercultural education in foreign language teaching and learning

Patricia von Münchow (1)

1 EDA - EA 4071 - Education Discours Apprentissages

The purpose of this paper is to bring about the role a contrastive approach called Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis can play in the design and the implementation of intercultural education activities in the language classroom. The author briefly describes the methodology of Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis in research and connects this methodology with intercultural education. She further explains how to proceed in a language and intercultural education classroom, step by step, using concrete examples. A final discussion concerns the controversial goal of investigating cultures on the level of ethnolinguistic communities by means of comparison in intercultural research and education.

Mots clés: discourse analysis; cross-cultural approach; intercultural education; intercultural competence; foreign language learning

Domaines: Linguistique; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Patricia von Münchow. Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis and intercultural education in foreign language teaching and learning. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 2012, 29. ⟨halshs-01419460⟩