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Title: Lost in translation : teaching intercultural skills through media images
Related: Communication Skills in University Education Conference (6th : 2006) (29 November - 1 December 2006 : Auckland)
Related: Rij-Heyligers, Josta Van. Intercultural communications across university settings : myths and realities : referreed proceedings of the 6th Communication Skills in University Education Conference, p.122-134
Publisher: New Zealand : Pearson
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200100 Communication and Media Studies
Author/Creator: Krajewski, Sabine
Description: In language teaching and in intercultural communications, we use images displayed in textbooks or in the media to help create an understanding of other cultures and to facilitate communication between cultures. To understand another culture, we need to understand our own. In this paper, I concentrate on how we can achieve the best results for intercultural competence by analysing and discussing images so that the implicit becomes explicit. Students need a toolbox of cultural know-how to obtain practicalbe results that can be used in intercultural communications. This toolbox includes a clear definition of culture, and a set of methods for the analysis of images. I use some practical examples from the internet and from advertising and film to show how students can take an active role in reading and interpreting signs to help crate meaning out of text (in this case the media image) by drawing upon their own experiences, attitudes, and emotions.
Description: 13 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200100 Communication and Media Studies
Subject Keyword: intercultural communication
Subject Keyword: intercultural competence
Subject Keyword: image of culture
Subject Keyword: toolbox
Subject Keyword: taboo
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of International Communication

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/156846
Identifier: ISBN:9781877371509
Identifier: mq-rm-2008000009
Language: eng
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