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Using the english language and cultural topics to foster the development of the intercultural competence in fifth graders

Abstract

In the following project, it is evidenced the intercultural competence application into a fifth grade English class, which was used as a medium to promote student’s intercultural competence; this, with the purpose of making the students use the English language while they learn more about their own culture and the differences between the foreign one; proving the students’ responses confronting the learning of English topics within the interculturality. In order to develop the present project, this application was directed to fifth grade students in a public school in Pereira, in which twenty-six students were exposed to intercultural topics in terms of nationalities, different families, customs, beliefs, countries, continents, races, and some famous characters around the world. Hence, the information was collected through different sources such as reflection formats, observations, personal journals, videos and photos, in order to know and explore the intercultural competence

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