Innovation in Language Learning
Developing Intercultural Competence by Building Up Awareness of Racism through ELT
Emmanuel Cruz, University of Veracruz (Mexico)
Frank Ramírez, University of Veracruz (Mexico)
Abstract
Cultural understanding involves discerning that interculturality is not an unbiased entity and recognizing that cultural interactions exhibit a great similarity to a game of power, where one of the parts tends to impose their beliefs, frameworks, and prejudices. Since the development of intercultural competence has attained status as an important target in ELT and given that one of the most significant sociocultural occurrences that arise in worldwide societies is racism, this paper portrays the results of an action research study whose objective was to build up cultural awareness of racism to contribute to the development of intercultural competence through a series of TBLT lessons. The participants were a group of students who were taking a B1-level English course in a university in Mexico. The data analysis was developed using qualitative analysis through descriptive coding and quantitative analysis. The outcomes showed that the intervention yielded positive results in building up awareness of racism and fostering intercultural competence. Similarly, the intervention produced advantageous outcomes regarding learning English, specifically to acquire new vocabulary.
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Keywords |
Intercultural competence, cultural awareness, awareness of racism, racism, TBLT.
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