ETL703 - Intercultural Communication in Language Classrooms

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Mohammed Aldhulaee
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online Learning experiences are via the unit site and comprise independent and collaborative learning activities including weekly engagement with materials and responses in discussion forums. A minimum of two online seminars (via Blackboard Collaborate) will be conducted during the trimester.

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit aims to introduce students to the basic concepts of intercultural communication. It discusses differences in interactive styles across diverse cultural settings and focuses on the application of intercultural pragmatics in language learning and teaching contexts.

Topics to be addressed include: Cultural differences in written and spoken discourse; Intercultural communication and Gricean maxims; Ways of making meaning in diverse cultural contexts; The pragmatics of face and politeness; Applications of pragmatics in second and foreign language learning and teaching; Relevance and implicature; Intercultural variation in speech acts; Presupposition and common ground; Cultural awareness in the classroom; Intercultural variation of academic English; and Stereotyping and discriminating in language.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Define and contextually locate the concept of culture and critically reflect on the seminal models of culture

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

ULO2

Critically analyse the concepts of face, culture shock, low and high communication styles as they apply in individualistic and collectivistic cultures

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Explore the influence of culture on the assumptions associated with different aspects of interaction and analyse teacher practices that address cultural representations in an ESL classroom

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Examine the variation of rhetorical patterns across cultures and synthesise strategies to address intercultural variation in the structure of academic texts

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Responses to theoretical issues and practical activities in logbook format 2000 words 40% Week 7
Assessment 2 - An essay on an issue in intercultural communication in a language classroom to be selected from a list of topics included the Unit Guide 3000 words 60% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ETL703 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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