Rethinking Intercultural Training In Teacher Training

In: Intercultural communication, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 1-10

Abstract

Often lauded for its role in language education, very little is said or written about the integration of intercultural education into language teacher training. This research spotlighted different approaches to interculturality as well as focusing on the processes that pre-service English language teachers went through during their intercultural training. The context of this study was one particular English Teacher Education Department in Turkey. The methodology rested on the use of focus-group interviews. 3 categories and 8 themes emerged from the analysed data indicated the importance of raising pre-service English language teachers' awareness of different approaches to interculturality, including these approaches in language teacher training as and relating them to pre-service English language teachers' future practice.