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What is Intercultural
Communication?
What is ICIG?
What is our purpose?
What are our objectives?
How can you join?
Who makes up our leadership
team?
What has ICIG been doing
Lately?
What are
the current topics under discussion?
Join our email discussion
list
What other ways can you
contribute to the ICIG?
Interested in IC Professional Training?
Intercultural
Communication Institute
(a private, non-profit, educational foundation)
WANTED:
Your Photos!
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CATESOL's first interest group with 1,060
members
and growing!
At the
Statewide Conference March 2002:
Gust Yep, Rick Kappra, Rosemary Henze,
Piper McNulty, Gail Weinstein
WHO WE ARE
This group provides an opportunity for TESL educators in California to develop intercultural
communication in CATESOL. The ICIG will promote intercultural communication
awareness and skills both in classroom instruction and professional
development for TESL teachers in all types of TESL programs. California teachers can lead TESOL in
developing professional standards for this essential component of language
teaching.
By Piper McNulty and Linda Callis Buckley
Excerpted from CATESOL News April 1998/Page 3
OUR PURPOSE
IS:
- To increase awareness of culture and its
impact on ESL teachers and students
- To support local research in intercultural
communication (IC)
- To increase awareness of the specific issues
of intercultural communication (and miscommunication) in TESOL and TEFL
programs
OUR OBJECTIVES ARE:
- To educate CATESOL membership on IC and its relevance
to ESL
- To stabilize the knowledge base of ICIG
membership
- To encourage ICIG members to propose
presentations and workshops on IC related topics at regional and state
conferences
- To provide assistance to the CATESOL board and
CATESOL publications in matters pertaining to the field of IC
- To encourage California-focused IC research
and the development of materials in IC
- To advocate inclusion of IC course work in
MATESOL programs
- To advise on the curricula for IC courses at
all 6 levels of instruction in CATESOL
- To offer professional assistance to future
revisions of the CLAD 4 course
Revised 4/01
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TO JOIN ICIG:
- When you join CATESOL or renew your
membership, you may choose two interest groups, a primary and a
secondary
- No additional fees are required to become an
interest group member
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OUR 2009-2010 LEADERSHIP TEAM IS:
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MESSAGE FROM KATHY BYWATER:
Greetings Fellow CATESOL Intercultural Interest Group (ICIG) Members:
At the CATESOL State Conference this past April, Francisco Ramos (Associate Professor; Loyola Marymount University ) and I became the Co-Coordinators for the Intercultural Interest Group. Robin Acosta (Gateway to College, Riverside Community College ) agreed to support the group by being the Secretary.
Your participation in our meeting in Pasadena was very stimulating for us because of the many wonderful ideas and topics you brought up. With your help, we would like to explore them within the ICIG. Please be assured that we will try to do our best to make that happen at the various regional conferences, the State Conference, and through CATESOL publications. Francisco and I are eager to increase individuals’ involvement in the ICIG, host rich rap sessions at the conferences, sponsor dynamic conference presentations, and meet the objectives of our interest group.
If you have any Intercultural-related conference presentation proposal or article topic ideas, please let us know. The most practical way to communicate with us is through the Discussion Listserv, but we welcome your e-mails and phone calls as well (our contact information appears above).
Thank you for your time and involvement.
WHAT HAS ICIG BEEN DOING LATELY?
Last year (2008) was a very active year for the ICIG with presentations at the LA Regional, Northern Regional, and Pasadena conferences. This year (2009), we hope to get representation at each of the conferences in the fall and will be planning interesting rap sessions. For example: do we need new theoretical frameworks? Former Coordinator Dr. Lynne Diaz-Rico "urge[s] all of us to think about the deeper underpinnings of the field and continue to work to sustain its relevance to ESOL." Any ideas are welcome!
Photos from the ICIG
Rap Session at the Northern Regional CATESOL Conference on November 4, 2006
Los Positas Community College, Livermore
COLLOQUIUM
PRESENTED AT STATE CONFERENCE:
Assessing and Monitoring Intercultural Competence
Presenters Were:
Alvino Fantini School for
International Training
Mary Shepard Wong Azusa Pacific University
Sirpa Tuomainen UC
Berkeley
Lisa Khan-Kapadia New Haven Adult School
It has been said that intercultural competence is what prevents people from
making "fluent fools" of themselves. Facilitating the development
and acquisition of the awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and skills which will
enable language learners to communicate appropriately in a given
intercultural context is not an easy task. Why is this so important and how
do ESL/EFL teachers assess and monitor their students' level of intercultural
competence?
This panel, sponsored by the Intercultural Interest Group (ICIG), featured Alvino Fantini, a well known interculturalist, who explored the multiple dimensions of
intercultural competence and the importance of monitoring and assessing its
development in an ESL/EFL classroom.
Following his presentation, three CATESOL ICIG leaders/ESL educators
described how they measure and check the intercultural competence of their
students. A teacher-educator described how she is using the Intercultural
Development Inventory (IDI) in faculty and staff training at her university.
Two ESL/EFL teachers described what they are doing to determine the level and
development of intercultural competence within their students both in the US
and overseas.
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CURRENTLY
BEING DISCUSSED:
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Teaching Tips
We would like to note that the CATESOL Home Page lists some excellent
references under the heading "Of Special Interest." These
include:
- Lesson Plans on
Tolerance and Global Understanding
- An Annotated
Booklist of Literature on Prejudice and Tolerance
- More resources for
educators regarding the September 11th terrorist attacks
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DISCUSSION:
We need your input! Join our discussion of the current topics above by signing
up for our email discussion list. To join send a message to join-icig@lists.catesol.org.
If you need assistance, contact
Diep Le diep1203@yahoo.com
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Pat Bennett
2000-01 ICIG Coordinator
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GET INVOLVED!
Steering Committee positions are open to be filled at our ICIG business
meeting, Friday afternoon of the State Conference. Join us!
What work are you currently doing in IC? We encourage you to write about
it for the CATESOL NEWS and to present at upcoming conferences. Need
ideas? Review our objectives
above.
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Upcoming Conferences:
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WANTED: YOUR PHOTOS!
We are seeking photos of ICIG members and/or their students in action to
add to this website. If you would like to contribute a photo, send it along
with the names of all pictured and a 25 word description of the occasion
and location. If you would like your email address displayed with the
photo, please include that also.
Through email send REDUCED SIZE .jpg or .gif
files ONLY to:
Diep Le diep1203@yahoo.com
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What is Intercultural
Communication?
The field
of Intercultural Communication (IC) incorporates concepts and research from
Cultural Anthropology, Socio and Applied Linguistics, Communication Studies,
Ethnic Studies and Cross-Cultural Psychology. IC research looks at
culture-specific behaviors and the cumulative effect of miscommunication
between people who perceive and interpret specific behaviors differently.
Students of all cultures have been socialized to expect and prefer specific
teaching styles and to demonstrate specific learning behaviors, so
knowledge of IC concepts and research can assist ESL instructors in making
informed pedagogical choices. A teacher's awareness of his or her students'
assumptions regarding classroom culture, what counts as knowledge, and the
value of language learning are crucial in ESL.
Application of IC knowledge and skills helps both teachers and students
withhold premature, biased evaluation of unfamiliar behaviors in any
context and build awareness and appreciation of others' culturally based
beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral norms.
From
ICIG Pamphlet, CATESOL Statewide Conference, March 2002
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