Content

The contents are divided into two different blocks, the first one more theoretical and the second one more practical:

- Intercultural communication theories. Principles and strategies in intercultural communication and the relationship between the teaching of language and culture

i) Conceptual delimitation. Fields and issues in the foreign language classroom.

ii) The concept of intercultural and multilingual competence according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

iii) Communicative and intercultural competences.

iv) Development of intercultural competences in teachers and students.

v)  Teaching processes. Case study.

vi) Linguistic mediation: what is and how can it be introduced in the foreign language teaching?

- Cultural knowledge teaching in classrooms of Chinese as a second language: problems and their management. Categorizing cultural knowledge and adapting it to the teaching of the language (Part I)

i) Evolution of the intercultural communication study in China. Necessary competences for teachers of Chinese as a second foreign language.

ii) Cultural conflicts reflected in different levels in the Chinese-Spanish communication.

iii) Non-verbal communication: contrastive analysis of the general norms of non-verbal communication in China and Spain.   

iv) Traditional Chinese thinking and its influence on Chinese culture.

v) The leveling of cultural knowledge and its integration into the Chinese language teaching.

- Cultural knowledge teaching in classrooms of Chinese as a second language: problems and their management. Categorizing cultural knowledge and adapting it to the teaching of the language (Part II)

i) Cultural clashes between China and Spain on the linguistic level.

ii) Sense of humor and word games.

iii) "Teach China in Chinese": the generalities of modern Chinese society. 

iv) Regional differences and generational changes.

v) Interpersonal relationships and social culture.

- Cultural knowledge teaching in classrooms of Chinese as a second language: problems and their management. Categorizing cultural knowledge and adapting it to the teaching of the language (Part III)

i) “East – West” interculturality: Perception of the Chinese culture and the non-Chinese world.

ii) Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, cultural empathy.

iii) Intercultural classroom: Teacher-student interculturality, multicultural students.

iv) Class organization and dynamics, motivation and learning styles.

v) Culture teaching in the classroom: development of activities for adults and children.

vi) Teaching mediation and the cultural element in the Chinese language classroom.