Challenges of teaching intercultural communication

Abstract

The present article is part of a course that intends to make the students familiar with cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication, pluralism and individualism of the people belonging to a wide range of cultural backgrounds, taking into account the values provided by anthropology, high and popular culture, sociology, business, international relations. The course tries to identify the ways that people behave in terms of individualism and collectivism in multilingual and multicultural societies. The present article focused on teaching communication in intercultural contexts represents one of the activities of the Vir_Teach (A virtual solution for comprehensive and coordinated training for foreign language teachers in Europe) project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme; Parteners: Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (Romania), University of Burgos (Spain), UC Leuven Limburg (Belgium), Szczecinska Szkola Wyzsza (Poland) and Universidade Lusofona, (Portugal).