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Research Goals To gain an understanding of: The beliefs and perspectives of FL/WL teachers towards teaching intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and the role of technology to do so.
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Research Goals To gain an understanding of: The beliefs and perspectives of FL/WL teachers towards teaching intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and the role of technology to do so. Practical Goal: To inform the educational field (FL/WL teacher educators and school administrators) so that they can provide FL/WL in-service and pre-service teachers with training and professional development to improve practices for teaching ICC. • Conceptual Framework • Constructivist Pedagogy • Sociocultural Lens for SLA • Defining ICC • Critical Pedagogy • Minority Populations in FL/WL • Power and Languages • Ethnography • Research beyond the classroom • Research Questions • What are the beliefs and perspectives of FL/WL teachers towards teaching intercultural communicative competence and what is the role of technology to do so? • What are FL/WL teachers’ beliefs about culture? • How do their beliefs influence their teaching of culture? • What are FL/WL teachers’ beliefs about instructional technology? • How do their beliefs influence their use instructional technology to teach culture? • To what extent does intercultural communicative competence take place in the FL/WL classroom with respect to teachers’ beliefs towards the teaching of culture and/or the use of instructional technology? • Research Methods • Questionnaire • Interviews • Classroom Observations Validity and Reliability M. Ferro Design Map--Draft #3