Elinor ParksDeveloping Critical Cultural Awareness in Modern Languages
A Comparative Study of Higher Education in North America and the United Kingdom
Introduction; 1. Problematising the separation between language and content
in UK and US Modern Language degrees; 2. Language graduates with 'deep
translingual and transcultural competence'; 3. Fostering Criticality and
Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in Higher Education; 4.
Exploring faculty and students' views on the ML curriculum and students'
development of critical cultural awareness and criticality; 5. Observed
differences and similarities between British and American universities; 6.
Fostering criticality development; 7. The development of intercultural
competence and critical cultural awareness; 8. Defining and contextualising
two emerging new competencies: communicative criticality and savoir se
reconnaître; 9. Towards a new understanding of language degrees and
critical cultural awareness: Implications for theory, research and practice