Browsing by Author "Bravo Araya, Camila"

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    Teaching politeness to develop intercultural competence in EFL students in the Chilean context
    (2020) Bravo Araya, Camila; Ortiz López, Juan Eduardo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Letras
    This Action Research project was conducted in a school in Santiago, Chile, from the necessity of helping ninth-grade students develop the intercultural competence in the foreign language class (English as a foreign language) through politeness principles. In order to do so, a qualitative approach was adopted where students were exposed to a first focus group followed by an intervention; a set of activities focused on producing language, to promote the acknowledgment of politeness patterns and the development of the intercultural competence skill. The success of the intervention was measured by a second focus group, which was compared to the first one to draw conclusions on students’ perceptions and the improvement of their intercultural skills.