Crossing the Bridge: Foreign Language Students' Reciprocal Images in (Inter)Cultural Mediation between Portugal and Turkey

Autor/inn/en	Basílio, Daniel; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena; Simões, Ana Raquel
Titel	Crossing the Bridge: Foreign Language Students' Reciprocal Images in (Inter)Cultural Mediation between Portugal and Turkey
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 16 (2016) 1, S.22-43 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
DOI	10.1080/14708477.2015.1114209
Schlagwörter	Role; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Intercultural Communication; Student Attitudes; Self Concept; Questionnaires; Cultural Awareness; College Students; Foreign Countries; Learning Motivation; Portuguese; Turkish; Content Analysis; Values; Case Studies; Focus Groups; Interviews; Portugal; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Schülerverhalten; Selbstkonzept; Fragebogen; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Collegestudent; Ausland; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Portugiesischunterricht; Türkisch; Inhaltsanalyse; Wertbegriff; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Türkei
Abstract	This study intends to highlight the role that Foreign Language Education (FLE), particularly in the Higher Education context, can play so as to contribute to the rapprochement of two distant and still mutually unknown countries such as Portugal and Turkey. In this sense, it ultimately aims at supporting the training of intercultural speakers, capable of promoting an effective Intercultural Dialogue between the two countries. A diagnosis is presented of the reciprocal images of Portuguese and Turkish students learning each other's language and culture. Conclusions are drawn on how their self- and hetero-images may pertain on the construction of their identities, on their awareness about and attitudes towards each other, on their motivation to learn each other's language, and on intercultural communication itself. Allying the study of Images of Languages and Cultures and the concept of Intercultural Competence in the study of students' representations within the FLE research tradition, a content analysis was carried out of the responses given to an inquiry by questionnaire. Conative implications of the students' images as revealed in the results were pointed out. Some important distinctions are highlighted in the reciprocal images of both groups. On this basis, recommendations for FLE are made focusing on the positive reconstruction of students' reciprocal images. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01