Yoko Munezane
Rikkyo University
Yoko Munezane currently teaches at Rikkyo University, Japan. Her research interests include intercultural communication in higher education, positive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, study abroad, and individual differences in language learning. She earned her doctorate degree in applied linguistics from Temple University and her MA from Columbia University. Her recent publications have appeared in The Modern Language Journal, Studies in Higher Education and others.
Sessions
Teachers’ Perceptions of Intercultural Competence
The purpose of this presentation is to explore the foreign language teachers’ perceptions and the practice of the teaching of intercultural competence in the Japanese context. A questionnaire was administered and semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results of the study suggested that the participants were generally willing to interculturalize their language education, and that their teaching practices were constrained by the preservice training, and the foreign language curricula. Implications of the study will be discussed.