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“Their customs can teach us lessons about our own
lifestyles”: integrating the teaching of cultural awareness and
intercultural understanding to the teaching of language
through a task-based approach in a Key Stage 3 French class

Simon Baron
(PGCE Modern Languages, 2017-2018)
email: simonbaron11@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper reports on an attempt to identify and implement strategies to  teach Key Stage 3 students about culture, understood through the concepts of cultural awareness and intercultural understanding. Through an action
research project, the hypothesis that a task-based approach could be an effective way to integrate the teaching of culture to the teaching of languagewas tested. The intervention raised students’ cultural awareness of French-
speaking cultures, but had a limited impact on students’ intercultural understanding. This framework could be improved by making cultural learning objectives explicit to all students and by creating more opportunities for teachers to assess for learning.

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The full paper is available for download as a pdf file: [pdf] 177-214-barons

Citation: Baron, S (2019)“Their customs can teach us lessons about our own lifestyles”: integrating the teaching of cultural awareness andintercultural understanding to the teaching of language through a task-based approach in a Key Stage 3 French class ''Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, Volume 10 pp.177-214  (Downloaded from http://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/, [date of access])