700 Reasons: Reason #76
- Reason: 76
- To varying degrees foreign language users exhibit the following: openness towards and interest in new experiences, other persons, ideas, peoples, societies and cultures; a willingness to relativise their own cultural viewpoint and cultural value system; a willingness and ability to distance themselves from conventional attitudes to cultural difference
- Reference:
- Lonergan, J. (2000) ‘Graduateness, transferable skills and employability’ in King, A. (ed) Languages and the Transfer of Skills (London: CILT), pp. 137-143
- Related Keywords:
- Culture, Intercultural competence, Values
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