Talk by Prof. Darla Deardorff, 2019

On 20 November, 2019 Professor Darla Deardorff came to talk to staff and PhD students at DELP on the invitation of Ildikó Lázár. Professor Deardorff (Duke University, Durham, NC - USA) has published profusely in the area of intercultural competence development. This time she mostly talked about a UNESCO initiated project that resulted in her newest book: "Manual for developing intercultural competencies: story circles". Published by UNESCO Publishing and Routledge, this book is open access and is available for free at: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370336. It explains how story telling can be used for intercultural competence development following the method of story circles, a tradition of sharing personal stories in small groups. The approach can be adapted to language teaching very easily. The interactive talk was followed by a question and answer session and developed into an enriching conversation. This was a wonderful opportunity to consider different perspectives in integrating the development of intercultural competence into foreign language teaching.