Intercultural speaker - A person who can engage with complexity and multiple identities and to avoid the stereotyping which accompanies perceiving someone through a single identity., Native-speakerism - An ideology that upholds the idea that so-called 'native speakers' are the best models and teachers of English because they represent a 'Western culture' from which spring the ideals both of English and of the methodology for teaching it., Intercultural competence - The ability to ensure a shared understanding by people of different social identities, and their ability to interact with people as complex human beings with multiple identities and their own individuality., National identity - People belonging to different countries might be too aware of this which may influence their perception of the other., Stereotypes - They reduce the complexity of human beings to a representation of a country or culture., Communicative competence - This concept emphasizes that language learners need to acquire not just grammatical competence but also the knowledge of what is 'appropriate' language., Lingua franca - The language spoken by two people in conversation from different linguistic backgrounds, which is a foreign/second language for one of them, or both.,

Understanding interculturality in ELT

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