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The Intercultural Dimension in
How interculturally competent are you?
Dr. Alison Gourvès-Hayward: Ecole Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France Dr. Fionnuala Kennedy: Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.Ms. Aleksandra Sudhershan: Dublin City University, Ireland
SIETAR Conference April 2007
Outline of Presentation ELP and eELP (LOLIPOP)
The intercultural dimension
Pilot: Feedback on intercultural dimension of LOLIPOP
Creating a virtual intercultural space
How intercultural are you?
EU-Funded Lingua 2 Project (2004-2007) On-line, interactive version of the ELP with an
enhanced intercultural dimension Uses Moodle as VLE
Project development LOLIPOP learning platform
8 countries (Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Spain)
12 partners 7 target languages
ELP - Three Components
Passport Biography
Dossier
Paper versus ePortfolios (Barrett, 2005)
Collecting Selecting
Reflecting
Projecting
Celebrating
Archiving
Linking / thinking
Storytelling
Collaborating
Publishing
e-features of Lolipop Online (via VLE Moodle) Interactive Multimedia Allows customisation “Share” function Online teacher’s manual
Issues with existing ELPs Focus on linguistic competence
Intercultural = cultural
Write reflectively (no guidance on this) Describe experience of another culture Describe cultural attitudes and behaviour
No self-assessment grids for intercultural
Testing = testing of cultural knowledge
Conceptual model: Byram’s Savoirs?
Savoirs - Knowledge Savoir être - Attitudes Savoir comprendre - Skills of
interpreting and relating Savoir apprendre/faire - Skills of
discovery and interaction Savoir s’engager - Skills of cultural
critical awareness
Conceptual model: Bennett’s Scale
Ethnocentric Ethnorelative
(Bennett 1993)
Denial Defence Minimisation Acceptance Adaptation Integration
Focus of assessment
Assessment of learning - summative
Assessment for learning - formative
Issues which arose during the development of the IC dimension opaque nature of ICC difficulty of designing a progressive scale from A1 to C2 Possible ethical implications of statements lack of familiarity with IC terminology (learners and
teachers) Possibility of being A1 on one dimension and C2 on
another Possibility of having a high level of linguistic competence
and poor intercultural skills, or vice versa ICC not necessarily related to one language where to include ICC in ELP?
DCU Pilot Feb-April 06 Multicultural group (ESOL) LOLIPOP in lab every 2nd week Feedback:
Class discussions Wikis Questionnaire Oral exam Focus groups
Intercultural self-assessment
Prevoius experience with intercultural self-assessment
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Questionnaire: Positive results of intercultural dimension
Students’ comments: When I read those, they made me reflect about my
intercultural skills and the examples were good. Well organized It's also important to improve my intercultural skills. It was interesting to assess the intercultural skills. I could
realize some intercultural aspect that had changed since I came here.
I had never evaluated my intercultural skills before so it was really useful. It is easy to evaluate your oral and written skills. However I think [the intercultural] is more difficult to answer.
I felt it was a bit easier to assess my intercultural skills than language skills.
Issues raisedThe students said: It was hard because this kind of skills
really depends on the situation, whom you talk with, or when.
It was difficult for me to understand a little bit.
It is hard to assess/reflect on your skills every week. Maybe you won't see any improvement etc. in this short term.
How can the ‘share’ function enhance the IC dimension? Moodle community online
Chat Forums Blogs (in Moodle?) Wikis
Digital storytelling
Conclusion We will…
Generate bank of student accounts of critical incidents as resources
Populate the resources section with linguistic and intercultural www links
And we will… Seek accreditation for LOLIPOP from the CoE Offer LOLIPOP as freeware to the HE sector
across Europe and beyond
How intercultural are YOU? Opportunity to try out LOLIPOP IC can-do
statements
We would welcome your feedback
Thank-you
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WebsitesBarrett, H. Website:
http://www.electronicportfolios.com/portfolios.html#pubsCouncil of Europe ELP site: • http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/portfolio/Default.asp?L=E&M=/mai
n_pages/welcome.htmlCulture Active• www.cultureactive.comINCA: www.incaproject.org The International Profiler
http://www.worldwork.biz/legacy/www/docs2/tip.phtmlIntercultural Development Inventory
http://www.intercultural.org/idi/idi.htmlECML• http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/LEA/presentation/pluriculturalism
.ppsDigital Storytelling association• http://www.dsaweb.org/index.html
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