Witte, Arnd
(2013)
Überlegungen zur Evaluierung interkultureller Kompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterrich.
Entwicklungslinien. Standpunkte der Fremdsprachenlehrforschung, 42 (1).
pp. 107-120.
Abstract
Intercultural competence is a complex yet vague construct entailing highly subjective notions
of disposition, intention, motive and personal identity, thus making it extremely difficult to evaluate
in the foreign language learning process. In this article, it is argued that a comprehensive evaluation
of intercultural competence is neither necessary nor possible in the institutional school framework
because the cognitive-instructive demands of the institution interfere with a genuine interest in developing
highly subjective intercultural constructs. In this context, existing evaluation-instruments such as
critical incidents are sufficient to fulfil the summative measurement of progress. By contrast, the social-
constructivist approach suggests that instruction and evaluation should be combined in order to
support subjective learning efforts. Forms of dynamic assessment try to support the learner in his/her
own subjective efforts at intercultural construction by means of cultural simulation games, reflexive
diaries, interviews, etc. Whereas the subjective-developmental approach is difficult to implement in
schools, some of its procedures could be applied in order to stimulate the subjective development of
intercultural spaces.
| Item Type: |
Article
|
| Keywords: |
Intercultural competence; interkultureller Kompetenz; foreign language learning; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > German |
| Item ID: |
7678 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Arnd Witte
|
| Date Deposited: |
07 Dec 2016 16:10 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Entwicklungslinien. Standpunkte der Fremdsprachenlehrforschung |
| Publisher: |
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
|
| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
here |
Repository Staff Only(login required)
 |
Item control page |
Downloads per month over past year
Origin of downloads
Altmetric
Altmetric