English as an International Language.pptVIP

Activity 3 - Who decides which model to follow: you or your students? (use handout) Visiting the concept of ‘Intercultural Speaker ‘ Why are there appeals to shift paradigms from ‘the native speaker’ to ‘the intercultural speaker’ in ELT? ? Context change 1. Shift of ownership 2. Need for intercultural knowledge 3. Need for cultural diversity 1. Shift of ownership: Large-scale migration increase cross-cultural encounters: you speak more English with non-native than native-speakers. Ownership moves from NS to NNS. 2. Need for intercultural knowledge: A large number of immigrant language users are increasing staying outside native speakers’ socio-cultural values that the trend has reversed: native speakers feel the need to understand foreign values of communicate with immigrants. 3. Need for cultural diversity: Human views of the world become diverse: different socio-cultural contexts prompts different meaning of the same phenomenon. This requires you to be open to many interpretations rather than restricting yourself to one cultural view (ex. silence may mean indifference or respect) Other reasons: ? 1. Setting impossible target 2. Ignore conditions under which NS and NNS learn and acquire L 3. Separating from one’s own socio-cultural factors 4. Imitators of NS rather than equal social beings. (The word native is by no means culturally or politically neutral). 5. NSs participating in NNS cultures need a different competence from that in their own country, namely knowledge attitudes and skills to maintain relationship ? (Michael Bryam 1997 Teaching and Assessing Inter Communicative Competence: Clevedon: Multilingual Matter Ltd) ? Conclusion: The pedagogical implications of EIL EIL means using models from both native and non-native teachers EIL should teach learners strategies for coping with cultural differences EIL should equip learners with the ability to function well in many cultures There is the need to teach language relevant to le