Attitudes towards Intercultural Communicative Competence of English for Specific Purposes Students
Research on language teaching of lingua francas like Spanish or English emphasize the need to consider cultural diversity and intercultural communication competence, as learners are more likely to interact with non-native speakers of different nationalities. In English for Specific Purposes for engi...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/64373 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/64373 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | English for specific purposes Intercultural communicative competence Inductive content analysis Attitudes ICC assessment. FILOLOGIA INGLESA |
| Resumo: | Research on language teaching of lingua francas like Spanish or English emphasize the need to consider cultural diversity and intercultural communication competence, as learners are more likely to interact with non-native speakers of different nationalities. In English for Specific Purposes for engineers, concepts such as intercultural teams, international meetings, geographical mobility, worldwide negotiations, and globalization are associated to the professional profiles of graduates and reveal the need to include intercultural communicative competence in their courses. This study uses inductive content analysis to identify the perceptions and attitudes of ESP students towards intercultural competence based on a corpus of self-assessment essays. |
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