Anniversary Workshop: Claire Kramsch: What is Symbolic Competence?
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- Anniversary Workshop: Claire Kramsch: What is Symbolic Competence?
- 2016-05-18T10:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-18T14:00:00+02:00
May 18, 2016 from 10:00 to 02:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Phil I, GCSC, R. 001
The notion of intercultural communicative competence has been supplemented in recent years by a concept that elaborates on its two components savoir s’engager and savoir être by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s work on symbolic power. First conceived by Kramsch (2006) and Kramsch & Whiteside (2008), it has been further explored in Germany for literary and cultural studies (Dobstadt, Fandrych &Riedner 2015), in the U.K by Li Wei (2014) for the teaching of Chinese children and in the U.S. by Kramsch (2011) and Kearney (2016) among others for the teaching of foreign languages. This workshop will explore the uses of symbolic competence in the language classroom and beyond.
- Kearney, E. 2016. Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education. Multilingual Matters.
- Kramsch, C. 2006. From communicative competence to symbolic competence. Modern Language Journal 90: 249-252.
- Kramsch, C. 2011. The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural. Language Teaching 44:3, 354-367.
- Kramsch, C. & Whiteside, A. 2008. Language ecology in multilingual settings. Towards a theory of symbolic competence. Applied Linguistics 29:4, 645-671.
- Li Wei. 2014. Negotiating funds of knowledge and symbolic competence in the complementary school classrooms. Language and Education 28:2, 161-180.
- Riedner, R. 2015. Das Konzept der symbolic competence (Claire Kramsch) im Schnittpunkt von Linguistik, Kulturwissenschaft und Fremdsprachendidaktik. In: Dobstadt, M., Fandrych, C, & Riedner, R (Hrsg.) Linguistik und Kulturwissenschaft. (pp.129-150). Frankfurt a.M.