Intercultural Communication in Europe

The PICTURE project

 

We welcome you to the PICTURE project on intercultural communication. 
With the ever increasing mobility of not only Europeans but also other people from all over the world the need for mutual understanding is becoming more and more important.  With this project we are offering a tool for students and teachers alike to further develop their intercultural competence in their contacts with foreigners.


English
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Español

Here you will find guided modules and video material which develops language teaching modules on intercultural communication in 5 languages. 

These modules can be used in any kind of foreign language course in the EU, at any level, from age 16 onwards.

The core item is a personal interview with foreigners — carried out by students (after in-class preparation) — on intercultural aspects. This means that students have to actually use the language they are studying in practice.

How does it work?  Students are prepared for the interviews through teaching units (see below) interactive lab units and video material such as: How to interview.

The project is still a “work in progress”, but here are some sample teaching modules for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Also, parts of two interviews as carried out by students after studying some of the modules are shown here on video.

Please feel free to download our introductory unit to read about our ‘mission’, then browse through the website and see how you can use our materials!

One of PICTURE's by-products is a large collection of "intercultural incidents". Some of them have been published in this booklet, a pdf-file, the cover of which is shown above.

 

Links to other websites on
intercultural communication.

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