Acquiring intercultural communicative competence from textbooks

Theoretical framework

1. Culture learning as the construction of a world view
   
2. Acquiring intercultural communicative competence from textbooks

Research design and methodology

1. Research questions
   
2. Sample selection and size
   
3. Research design

Pupils' attitudes towards and contacts with German people and culture

1. Pupil's attitude towards Germans
   
2. Pupil's contacts with German culture and people
   
3. Relating attitude and contact data
   
4. Discussion of results

Pupil's perceptions of German culture and people

1. Procedures and tools for gathering and processing perception data
   
2. Presentation of perception data
   
3. Overview of main findings
   
4. Discussion of results

Textbooks' potential for acquiring intercultural communicative competence

1. Operationalisation of 'textbooks' potential for promoting the acquisition of intercultural communicative competence
   
2. Gathering textbook data
   
3. Presentation of textbook data
   
4. Summary of findings and conclusions

Summary and conclusions

1. Evalutation of theoretical framework
   
2. Evalutation of research design and methodology
   
3. Pupil's culture learning and textbooks' potential for promoting learning
   
4. Getting prepared for foreign langauage-and-culture teaching in the 21st century

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