The results of ECML project B1 also known as ICCinTE

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• The results of ECML project B1 also known as
  ICCinTE
• (2004-2006)

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Developing and assessing intercultural
communicative competence A guide for language
teachers and teacher educators

• Edited by
• Ildikó Lázár and
• Martina Huber-Kriegler, Denise Lussier,
• Gabriela S. Matei, Christiane Peck
• ECML, Council of Europe

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Written by

• Michaela Canková Gabriela S. Matei
• Siyka Chavdarova G. de la Maya Retamar
• Ksenia Golubina Christiane Peck
• Martina Huber-Kriegler Veronika Rot Gabrovec
• Daniel Ivanus Liljana Skopinskaja
• Aina Kackere Gerlind Vief-Schmidt
• Ildikó Lázár Silvia Wiesinger
• Denise Lussier
• coming from
• Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic,
  Estonia, Germany,
• Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovenia,
  Spain

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This publication

• is building on a previous ECML project (1999 -
  2003) that produced Mirrors and windows an
  intercultural communication textbook (2003)
• is the result of the work of fifteen of the
  teacher educators who participated at our
  projects central workshop in Graz in October
  2004

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This publication

• can be used as a teachers or trainers book with
  Mirrors and Windows or with any other
  intercultural communication coursebook
• can serve as a resource book that gives
  theoretical and practical guidance and
  supplementary materials to help in the planning
  and implementation of intercultural communication
  courses and workshops

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This publication

• is available in French for teachers and trainers
  who use the French adaptation of Mirrors and
  windows in their work (Miroirs et fenêtres,
  2006)
• was presented and parts of it were tried out at
  12 National Training Events (NTEs) in the project
  participants home countries
• in 2005 and 2006
• consists of a printed booklet and a CD-Rom and
  comprises two parts as described below

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Two parts

• Part One Guidelines for the development of
  intercultural communicative competence (ICC)
• (Ildikó Lázár with Michaela Canková, Aina
  Kackere, Gabriela S. Matei, Christiane Peck,
  Veronika Rot Gabrovec and Gerlind Vief-Schmidt)
• Part Two Guidelines for the assessment of
  intercultural communicative competence (ICC)
• (Denise Lussier with Siyka Chavdarova-Kostova,
  Ksenia Golubina, Daniel Ivanus, Guadelupe de Maya
  Retamar, Liljana Skopinskaja and Silvia
  Wiesinger)

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The printed booklet of our publication contains
the introduction to

• the definitions of key terms in intercultural
  communication training
• the planning and implementation of intercultural
  communication courses and workshops
• the guidelines for the use of materials and
  activities based on literature, films and songs
  to develop intercultural competence
• guidelines, descriptors and a framework of
  reference for assessing intercultural competence.
  

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The bulk of the materials can be found on the
accompanying CD-Rom

• the theoretical background to intercultural
  communication training in language teaching and
  teacher education
• workshop and course planning guidelines,
  including checklists, questionnaires and
  templates
• teaching materials with sample lesson plans and
  descriptions of activities based on poetry, fairy
  tales, short stories, films and songs
• methods of assessment and descriptors of
  competences

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• the assessment of the three dimensions of ICC
  with concrete assessment tasks
• research articles on the role of culture in
  language teaching and on representations of
  others and other cultures in teacher education
• workshop reports and project information
• the participants reflections on the lessons
  learnt from the intercultural communication
  workshops (NTEs) held in Prague, Riga,
  Bratislava, ilina, Budapest, Nottoden, Kaunas,
  Sulejówek, Ljubljana, Stuttgart, Graz, Zagreb and
  Malmö in 2005 and 2006.

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Our aim with this project was to help prepare
teachers to avoid problems in communication
across cultures
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Intercultural communication made easier
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Where can you find out more?

• ECML website www.ecml.at
• Project website www.ecml.at/mtp2/ICCinTE
• E-mail address of the coordinator
  lazar_at_ludens.elte.hu
• Thank you for your attention