ICC Components

David Burda
Intercultural Communicative Compentence

-an ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in various cultural contexts

-Intercultural Competence and Intercultural Communicative Competence- Byram (1997)- IC

refers to people's ability to "interact in their own language with the people from another
country and culture," while ICC is "the ability to interact with people from another country
and culture in a foreign language."
- key components: motivation, self- and other knowledge, and tolerance for uncertainty
Motivation

-the reason for our desire to learn/ foster intercultural relationship

-intrinsic:voluntary

person has curiosity and is interested in intercultural encounters

good foundation to build additional competence attitudes and skills

-extrinsic: desire for a reward- money, recognition, or power

-members of dominant groups- less motivated- can be unconscious action

-risk for extrinsic motivation- gaining reward and abandonment of the effort
Knowledge
-supplements motivation

-includes self and other awareness, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility

Mindfulness

-reflection on our ongoing communication either later or right now

-question: How is the conversation going? How am I reacting?

Cognitive Flexibility

-ability to revise existing knowledge and create new categories based on our newly gained
information
 Knowledge
Self-Awareness Other Knowledge

-developing- step out of our comfort zones -developed by direct encounters with other cultures

-key component- listening to people from other cultures -challenging -not enough opportunities (students or pupils)

-insight on how others perceive our identities -unconscious reflexes of grouping with people

of our own culture

-example- the author, American, in Sweden- relationships
-need to make an effort- courses at

universities,documentaries,learning new
languages

-need to ascertain that our sources are credible

Tolerance for uncertainty
-our attitude in uncomfortable situations

-intercultural encounters often bring up uncertainty

-what we should or shouldn't say

-as time goes by, the stress levels go down

-high tolerance-patient individual- usually intrinsic motivation

-waiting for new information so the understanding could be

increased

low tolerance- anxiety levels high- the individual may appear as less competent
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Skills of interpreting and relating
Knowledge

-not primarily knowledge about a specific -ability to interpret event from another culture and
culture relate it to one's own culture

-of social groups and how they function in -we try to interpret these events to each other
our own and other's culture

-oneself and others Skills of discovery and interaction

-stereotypes of our own culture and other -ability to acquire new knowledge of culture and
cultures application a real-time conversation

Critical cultural awareness Attitudes

-willingness not to assume that our own beliefs are the correct ones,
-ability to evaluate critically perspectives, practices
to think from the perspective of an outsider
and products from multiple cultural perspectives
-values and attitudes of intercultural speaker and mediator,
openness, readiness to suspend beliefs and disbelief
References

Byram, M. (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters.

Communication in the Real World. (2016, September 29). Pressbooks.

https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/8-4-intercultural-communication-competence/

Intercultural communicative competence. (2009, January). Teaching English | British Council.

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/intercultural-communicative-competence

IntercultureTV. (2017, March 13). Intercultural Competence [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToOiAiqEvrE

López-Rocha, S. (2016). Intercultural communicative competence: creating awareness and promoting skills in the language classroom. Innovative Language
Teaching and Learning at University: Enhancing Participation and Collaboration, 105–111. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.000411

UO Center for Applied Second Language Studies. (2021, September 1). What is Intercultural Communicative Competence? (InterCom Live: September 6, 2021)
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4QOn07fbGQ
I hope I didn't confuse you