[64] Congrés internacional de CercleS (4)

També els eixos de llenguatges d'especialitat i de la qualitat als centres d'idiomes presenten ponències d'interès al Congrés internacional de Cercles. En destaco: 1) “Specific italian course for future erasmus students” (Espanya); 2) “The european language portfolio in esp courses: the case of business english listening modules” (Itàlia) i, pel que fa al segon tema: 1) “Evaluating the management of education at the language centre” (Finlàndia) i 2) “The language resource centre as a mechanism of change towards autonomous language learning” (França). Interès especial, d'altra banda, presenta l'eix de la interculturalitat en l'aprenentatge de llengües, amb ponències com les següents: 1) “A portfolio approach to assessing intercultural communicative competence (Itàlia) [“However, while the authors of the Common European Framework were successful in identifying and establishing levels and descriptors for linguistic competence, they failed to provide adequate parameters to assess intercultural competence even though in the description of competences, the CEF recognises the importance of knowledge of the world and intercultural skills (Byram, 2000)”; els autors elaboren un “supplementary material designed to make portfolio holders reflect on their intercultural experiences and report behavioural progress in intercultural situations.”]; 2) “A cultura-based exchange with room videoconferencing” (Alemanya) [Videoconferencing is a solution for my course because students could see and hear each other at the same time instead of having to journey to a foreign country, which is not always easy to organize.]; 3) “Interculture wiki: promoting language learning and intercultural communication using web 2.0 (itàlia); 4) “Designing a multicultural language programme” (Txèquia); “Tools for developing cross-cultural competence” (Txèquia); “How can elp enhance intercultural competence?” (Eslovàquia, Espanya).