The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas

There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of wh...

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Main Author:	Houghton, Stephanie
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2009
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1051/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1051/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1051/1/5-Stephanie_Houghton.pdf

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spelling	ukm-10512016-12-14T06:28:41Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1051/ The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas Houghton, Stephanie There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resides partly in language, the development of intercultural communicative competence (Byram 1997) should play a pivotal role in foreign language education both to preserve cultural and linguistic diversity, facilitating and enhancing intercultural communication in the process. A range of skills considered central to intercultural communicative competence will be presented and illustrated showing how language students can learn to take control over the development not only of language, but of their own identities. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1051/1/5-Stephanie_Houghton.pdf Houghton, Stephanie (2009) The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 15 . pp. 69-95. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resides partly in language, the development of intercultural communicative competence (Byram 1997) should play a pivotal role in foreign language education both to preserve cultural and linguistic diversity, facilitating and enhancing intercultural communication in the process. A range of skills considered central to intercultural communicative competence will be presented and illustrated showing how language students can learn to take control over the development not only of language, but of their own identities.
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title	The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas
title_short	The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas
title_full	The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas
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publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
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