Michael Byram's Model of Intercultural Communicative Competence by Catherine Watson https://padlet.com/catherine_watson/blghajy5m82z Summary of the five 'savoirs' en-us 2017-09-03 11:08:27 UTC 2017-09-08 14:26:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/catherine_watson/blghajy5m82z/wish/185872899   
1. Knowledge about historical and national events, social interaction in your own, and the student’s country. 
2. Skills to identify ethnocentric perspectives, when misunderstandings and conflicts occurs. 
3.  Seek out for knowledge about your own and the student’s cultures and culture practice – use this for reel-time communication and build bridges between the cultures.
 4. Natural openness, curiosity and readiness to face prejudices and stereotypes and willingness to changes them. 
 5. Identify and interpret explicit and implicit values in documents and events in your own and student’s country.



 
 
]]> 2017-09-08 14:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_watson/blghajy5m82z/wish/185872899 1) Knowledge about the central values of a specific culture, seen from historical, political and economic perspective (central values from historical perspective also include customs).2) Able to critically analyse text, both of the target culture and one´s own, in order to overcome stereotyping and mediate by finding the common ground.3) Ability to acquire new knowledge about the interlocutor, by acquiring information threw text, and testing the knowledge by comparing, thus using the acquired knowledge to communicate, and mediate between one´s own and foreign cultures.4) Be willing to seek other “cultures” and engage in verbal and none verbal conversations, by being curious and openminded, and simultaneously be aware of that various cultural practices are not necessarily understood the same way.5) Ability to interact and mediate in cultural settings, by objective analytical approach to the source of information, which is bound by context of time and place. If one is unable to find a common ground, in regards to views of interpretations, if the IS is unable to agree on the common criteria, it is required to negotiate the place of disagreement. muazahm82 https://padlet.com/catherine_watson/blghajy5m82z/wish/185877979 2017-09-08 14:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_watson/blghajy5m82z/wish/185877979