Identities and plurilingualism: preconditions for the recognition of intercultural competences.

Autor/in	Zarate, Geneviève
Titel	Identities and plurilingualism: preconditions for the recognition of intercultural competences.
Quelle	Aus: Intercultural competence. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing (2003) S. 85-117Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 30
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Kulturdifferenz; Identität; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Vermittlung; Anthropologie; Gleichstellung; Kulturaustausch; Bildungsabschluss; Interkulturelle Kompetenz; Lernen; Fremdsprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Äquivalenz; Europäische Dimension; Europäische Identität; Europäische Integration; Politik; Anerkennung; Europa
Abstract	The author brings us... to the question of how the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF) needs to be developed in the future. Her concerns... are with the changing social and political context. She begins and ends with the practical issue of mutual recognition of certification and diplomas, which has constantly been a pre-occupation of European authorities with a view to encouraging greater mobility. She points out however that mobility takes different forms, that these are changing, that earlier forms influenced the production of Council of Europe documents such as Threshold Levels, and that the rapidly developing realisation of a common European political, social and economic space is creating new conditions for a common European identity and concept of citizenship which need to be taken into consideration as the CEF develops. Her argument is that the full realisation of such a common space needs to be preceded by a deconstruction of old conflicts and hostilities. We need to overcome the duality of most language teaching - which implicitly compares and contrasts "own" and "foreign/ target" language and culture... in order to develop the notion of mediation and the language learner as social actor interacting with other citizens in multilingual situations on equal terms. She then analyses the CEF as a product of its context, suggesting that it now needs further refinement in the conceptualisation of intercultural competence, to respond to change. She sees in the European Language Portfolio (ELP), which is closely related to the CEF but is a more recent development, the opportunity for the creation of a symbolic space of exchange of certification, but also of experience inside and beyond educational institutions, a space which symbolises the commonality which is the implicit political aim of European states. Her conclusions take the form of proposals for future work to strengthen the contribution of the CEF and the ELP to the creation of a European endeavour. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2005_(CD)