Conclusion to the Part II
The immersion language teaching methods and the tasks employed by the teachers facilitate in some students contextual understanding and spoken interaction, a sense of being a purposeful language user, and some understanding of the continuity of language and culture. Although the teachers largely maintain a focus on the target language itself, and make only limited linguistic comparisons, there must be nevertheless sufficient cues and context for some students to make L1/target language connections themselves, and thus develop and display metalinguistic skill. Teachers’ interculturality is enacted in their bilingualism, the nature of their interactions, their communicated understanding of language and culture, and their movement between two cultures. Students emulate this model, and the reality of some students’ language experience is shaped by it, as Timmy, one of the researcher in this field, expresses it: You learn differently, you think differently in language... It’s a different reality when you’re learning in French. It must be concluded that teacher interculturality is a facilitator of intercultural competence in students. The enhanced understanding of interculturality is further discussed below. Students experience awareness of intercultural change in themselves. This is largely expressed in their ownership of their progressive bilingualism, their ethnorelative91 outlook, and their awareness of moving between two languages and cultures. Pupils seem to be really interested in different cultures. They like to work with different media, but they are not used to be creative. Thus at the beginning it is very difficult for them to participate in this kind of activities. They know a lot about intercultural issues, they usually know how a good intercultural relation should be, but also they admit that in many situations it is difficult for them to put in practice those knowledge.
CHAPTER III. EXPERIMENTAL CHECKING THE MODEL OF FORMING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF THE YOUNG LEARNERS BASED ON DIALOGICAL TEXTS
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