Teaching intercultural communication in the university setting: an Australian perspective

Abstract

Part of the tasks of internationalizing the university curriculum involves developing into courses and academic programs generally, activities and assessment practices that provide opportunities for linguistic and cultural input through interaction between local and international students. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of internationalizing the curriculum through the description of an innovative course that we developed to teach Intercultural Communication to languages and linguistics students. The program's innovation lies in the way in which teaching and learning strategies from disparate areas of academia are brought together under the rubric of teaching culture within a university culture. We conceptualize culture broadly in this course as the experiences of everyday living and we argue that students best appreciate the connection between communication, language and culture through the immediate micro-level of everyday living with and in culture.

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