Language Culture and Curriculum
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: Eoghan Mac Aogain (St Patrick's College)
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Volume: 14 Number: 1 Page: 42–57
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Developing Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Pre-service ESL/EFL Teachers: A Critical Perspective
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Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui
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Pre-service teachers need a critical cross-cultural communicative competence in English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL). The view is supported here by the findings of a research project that examined
the efforts made to develop cross-cultural communicative competence in students enrolled in an M.A course in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). The research focused on the conceptualisations
of culture utilised within the programme, the professional and cultural identity formation processes that appear to be occurring, and the characterisation of students' analyses of power relations and their
own position within these relations (Sehlaoui, 1999). Based on students' perspectives, beliefs, and attitudes as described in Sehlaoui (1999), data-based critical pedagogical implications and classroom
activities are suggested.
© Multilingual Matters 2001
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