Assessing Intercultural Capability in Learning Languages: Some Issues and Considerations

Autor/in	Scarino, Angela
Titel	Assessing Intercultural Capability in Learning Languages: Some Issues and Considerations
Quelle	In: Language Teaching, 42 (2009) 1, S.67-80 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-4448
DOI	10.1017/S0261444808005417
Schlagwörter	International Education; Student Evaluation; Inferences; Second Language Learning; Intercultural Communication; Models; Second Language Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Inference; Inferenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Analogiemodell; Fremdsprachenunterricht
Abstract	Teachers of languages, as well as educators in general and employers, increasingly recognise the importance of developing intercultural capability. This recognition, however, brings the question of how this is evidenced as an outcome of learning. The assessment of this capability poses a range of theoretical and practical challenges. I begin with a description of languages learning within an intercultural orientation and a model for understanding assessment. I then discuss issues of conceptualising and defining the construct, as integral to the process of assessment. Next, I consider issues in eliciting intercultural capability in a proposed framework that includes assessment as both communicative performance (elicited in "critical moments") and meta-awareness (elicited in commentaries). To conclude, I discuss issues related to identifying and judging evidence of the development of the intercultural capability and warranting the inferences made about students' developing understanding. The discussion is based on the experience of ongoing studies investigating the assessment of the intercultural capability in learning languages and in international education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10