TOPIC 4: Relevance of the Knowledge of Foreign Language as an instrumentof Communication among people and countries.

Interest in
Linguistic diversity and getting to know a foreign language and its culture.
1.- INTRODUCTION: FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE, COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE, LANGUAGE PROFICIENT, ATTITUDES TOWARDS
ONE´S OWN OR ANOTHER CULTURE. CULTURE COMPETENCE IS PART OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHERS HAVE TO INTEGRATE IN THE FOREIGN
LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. CONTEXT AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH LANGUAGE CAN BE USED ACCURATELY AND APPROPRIATELY: FALL SHORT OF THE MARK
WHEN IT COMES TO ACTUALLY EQUIPPING STUDENTS WITH THE COGNITIVE SKILLS THEY NEED IN A SECOND-CULTURE ENVIRONMENT (STRAUB, 1992)

2.- FOREIGN LANGUAGES AS AN INSTRUMENTAL OF 3.- LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY 4.- NEW RESEARCHES: NEUROEDUCATION
COMMUNICATION

2.1.- DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE 3.1.- DEFINITIONS

- EDWARD HALL (1964)
2.2.- DEFINITION OF COMMUNICATION
- SAVIGNON (1997): THE CONTEXT AND THE
EXPERIENCE.
2.3.- VALUE OF ENGLISH AS A COMMUNICATIVE
INSTRUMENT
-COMMUNICATION: ABILITIES HUMAN: FEELINGS,
EMOTIONS AND THROUGTS AND EXPRESS IT
BETWEEN LANGUAGE. IT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW
HOW TO SPEAK AND UNDERSTAND A UNIVERSAL
LANGUAGES SUCH AS ENGLISH. TO BE ABLE TO
COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
IS THE BEST WAY TO GROW PERSONALLY AND
PROFESSIONALY.
PROPORTION OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SPOKEN WITHIN - FERNÁNDEZ COTO
A GIVEN TERRITORY, WHICH CAN BE A COUNTRY OR A - FRANCISCO MORA
GEOGRAPHICAL REGION. A PLACE WHERE MANY - LESLEY A. HART ( GLOVE DESIGNER)
LANGUAGES COEXIST.
3.2.- LANGUAGE AS CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM:
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
SPARKED CONSIDERABLE CONTROVERSY. IT IS VALIDITY AS
AN EQUAL COMPLEMENT TO LANGUAGE LEARNING HAS
OFTEN BEEN OVERLOOKED OR EVEN IMPUGNED.
FACTUAL CULTURAL INFORMATION
OTHER PERSPECTIVE: PSYCHOLOGY OR ANTHROPOLOGY.
3.3.- INTEREST OF LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE
SECOND LANGUAGE.
WE NEED TO DEFEND TO TEACH OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
DAVID CRYSTAL´S: APPRAISE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LEARNING AS AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
MEANS.

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