RAISING INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS AND BUILDING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE IN PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE CLASSES / SENSIBILISATION INTERCULTURELLE ET RENFORCEMENT DES COMPETENCES EN COMMUNICATION INTERCULTURELLE DANS LES COURS DE LANGUES PROFESSIONNELS

Abstract

The present article aims to point out the necessity to raise intercultural awareness and to build intercultural communication competence in Professional Foreign Language Classes. After defining the main concepts involved and having as a starting point G. Hofstede’s cultural dimension’s theory, the article brings forward several proposals of activities and makes reference to certain available and useful resources and methods that could serve the announced objective.

Keywords

• intercultural awareness
• intercultural communication competence
• professional foreign language
• g. hofstede