The aim of the course is to enhance students’ intercultural awareness and improve their communication skills in intercultural settings. Students will explore how various cultures worldwide, including their own, are defined through verbal and non-verbal language, symbols and meanings assigned to the symbols, cultural values and perception of those values. The importance of international understanding and intercultural communication inside as well as outside the school context is emphasized. At the end of the course, students should be able to recognize aspects of intercultural communication; improve their communication strategies used in intercultural settings; apply various dimensions of culture in intercultural conflicts. Students should also develop positive attitudes towards other cultures and improve their skills as intercultural speakers of English.
Literature:
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D’Andrade, Roy (2008) A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Deardorff, D. K. (Ed.) (2009). The Sage handbook of intercultural competence. Sage.
Gudykunst, W.B. (2004) Bridging Differences. Effective Intergroup Communication. 4th edition, London: Sage Publications.
Gudykunst, W. B. (ed.) (2003) Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication. USA (CA): Sage Publications.
Gudykunst, W.B., B. Moody (2002). Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication. 2nd Edition. SAGE Publications.
Hofstede, Gert J., Pedersen, Paul B., Hofstede, Geert (2002) Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures. Maine: Intercultural Press.
Jackson, Jane (2019) Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication, 2nd Edition, London and New York: Routledge
Janík, Zdeněk (2011) "Cultural Values and their Relation to Communication Styles, Learning, and Teaching". In Lingvodiverzita a Multikulturalismus. První vydání. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, s. 76-84, 9 s. ISBN 978-80-7395-363-8
Janík, Zdeněk (2013) "Living The Cultural Experience of Studying Abroad". Brno: Masaryk University, available at http://ois.muni.cz/images/files/Incoming/Student/practicalities/EAP/Living_the_Cultural_Experience.pdf
Janík, Zdeněk (2017) "Negotiation of Identities in Intercultural Communication." JoLaCe Journal of Language and Cultural Education. Berlin: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, roč. 5, č. 1, s. 160-181.
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Scollon, R. Scollon, S.W., and Jones, R. H. (2011) Intercultural Communication: Discourse Approach. 3rd Edition. NJ, USA: John Wiley&Sons.
Ting-Toomey Stella, Leeva C. Chung (2012) Understanding Intercultural Communication. Oxford: OUP.
- Teacher: Zdeněk Janík