Intercultural skill as a source of the innovation in language teaching

Dousteh Zadeh, Mohammadreza (University of Teheran) [BIO]

Email: mdousteh@yahoo.de

 

ABSTRACT:

Intercultural skill is in principle no innovation in foreign language teaching, but it is considered as source of the innovation. The use of intercultural skill can come however to renewals in the teaching process.

In accordance with the present theories of foreign language didactics, if we do not pay attention to exchange of intercultural skill, the acquisition of language skill will not be stable. The truth is the inclination of a majority of language learning to goal culture is their first motive.

The present methods of the foreign language didactics are basend on intercultural communication, they do not only use the goal culture as a suitable means for the language acquisition but they put worth on role of the intercultural skill as a substantial goal. The available article with emphasis on the role of the origin culture with intercultural communication, in first step, considers roots and effective cultural elements on foreign language teaching, the reasons of attantion to main elements of cultural creativity (literature and customs) in foreign language teaching books, and to affirms the necessity of creation for intercultural skill and it examines gradually the way to the intercultural skill apart from the language skill.

Here also several examples from German teaching in Iran is explained, as helps the acquisition of intercultural skill while the German culture and language can touch and handling each other in Iran and this handling causes innovation finally.