Cultural Innovation in Primary School. Teaching English from an Intercultural Perspective

ORDEN ALFABÉTICO. BARBONI, SILVANA; BEACON, GRISELDA; PORTO, MELINA

San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina

Conferencia; Cultural Awareness in ELT. XXXII FAAPI Conference.; 2007

The British Council, FAAPI (Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés), y AJPI (Asociación Jujeña de Profesores de Inglés).

“Cultural Innovation in Primary School. Teaching English from an Intercultural Perspective” junto con las Prof. Silvana Barboni y Griselda Beacon. Cultural Awareness in ELT. Comunic-arte Editorial, Córdoba: 61-67. ISBN: 978-987-602-070-1. 2007. Páginas totales. 252. También en CD. The role of English as a language for international communication has determined the need for English speakers to become intercultural speakers. It is well acknowledged that the ability to interact with “others”, to recognize different “voices” in discourse and to express the self identity through literacy practices has become a key issue in ELT educational policies. Following the prescriptions of a new law of education, the province of Buenos Aires is developing a new curriculum design for English in primary school that aims at developing children´s intercultural competence in the English class. This paper describes how the new primary school curriculum design prescribes explicitly and implicitly the intercultural dimension in the class.