What is it about?
It's beneficial for TESOL teachers to develop intercultural identity through learning another language, enhancing intercultural verbal and nonverbal communication competences.
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Why is it important?
More and more non-English-background people are learning English as a foreign/second language. It's important for TESOL teachers to have some foreign/second language literacy and intercultural verbal and nonverbal communication competences which can facilitate their student learning and enhance teacher-student rapport.
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Ii is hoped that TESOL teachers can pay equal attention to intercultural nonverbal communication competence development because it is multidimensional (e.g., speech rate as paralinguistics, body language as kinesics, and personal space and distance as proxemics) and multi-disciplinary (e.g., anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, communication, etc.). Thus, intercultural nonverbal communication competence is more complex and information-packed than intercultural verbal communication competence.
Dr Ping Yang
Western Sydney University
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This page is a summary of: Developing TESOL teacher intercultural identity: An intercultural communication competence approach, TESOL Journal, November 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/tesj.356.
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