%0 Journal Article
%T Intercultural Competence in Japanese Language Teaching
%J Societas Classica
%D 2017
%X The paper sheds light on some contemporary methodologies of teaching Japanese as a second language at Japanese universities from the point of view of intercultural competence. In linguistics the terms intercultural and cross-cultural are often used synonymously, but we make a certain distinction between them. While crosscultural supposes a kind of meeting between different cultures without any special interferences, intercultural evokes an association of a £¿crash¡° between different systems of values while trying to accept the £¿otherness¡° and it also implies a process of retrospection of one¡¯s own system of values. On the other hand, the development and cultivation of intercultural competence is a long and many sided process concerned both: 1) with the foreign language and culture, that are to be mastered and 2) with one¡¯s own language and culture, too. Many of the practices described in the paper stress on two points that are important for the development of intercultural competence: 1) teaching language and culture as a whole and inseparable unit and 2) providing the proper medium for a communication at an individual level
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/sc/eng/vol9/iss1/24