@article{oai:tamagawa.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001157,
 author = {Baker, Will},
 journal = {The Center for ELF Journal},
 month = {Apr},
 note = {In this article I argue that ELT needs to incorporate a more intercultural and transcultural approach to teaching about culture and language. I discuss three perspectives to understanding language and culture in communication: cross-cultural, intercultural and transcultural. While cross-cultural perspectives, with their focus on homogenous national level accounts of language and culture, have been criticised as stereotyped and essentialist, they are still the most prevalent in ELT. However, in order to better represent the fluidity of language and culture through ELF intercultural and transcultural perspectives need to be adopted more widely in pedagogy. One of the most fundamental implications of this is a re-evaluation of communicative competence in ELT. Competence needs to be expanded to intercultural communicative competence, and particularly intercultural awareness (ICA), to better recognise the intercultural dimension of English teaching and use. I conclude with some suggestions for pedagogic approaches and practices which incorporate intercultural and transcultural perspectives by utilizing ICA, with the overall aim of better preparing learners for the superdiversity of languages and cultures in ELF communication.},
 pages = {1--10},
 title = {Exploring Intercultural and Transcultural Communication in ELT},
 volume = {6},
 year = {2020}
}