Title: Simulating OZ Moments in the Classroom with the BARNGA Activity
Pages: 71-83
Author(s): Bruno Jactat
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Abstract:
As mentioned in the preface of these proceedings, the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Intercultural Communication in Language Education Special Interest Group’s (ICLE SIG) main objective is to provide a platform for language teachers to bridge Intercultural Communication (IC) theory with their everyday practice as educators. Under this context, in our 2nd Conference (2022) we introduced to the public one of our many efforts to accomplish this end, namely the Activity Initiative (AI). The ICLE SIG AI is intended to be a repository of IC-related practical activities that teachers can access and apply in their classrooms.
Given that the publication of these proceedings is also yet another venue for fulfilling the above mentioned ICLE SIG mission, we hereby present you one of the Activity Initiative’s entries, but with a twist: we asked its author to write for us a detailed theoretical rationale of it. The activity in question is titled BARNGA, and its author, Bruno Jactat, kindly accepted to elaborate upon the theoretical underpinnings of why and how this activity can be used in the classroom to generate Oz moments, which are an important part of the intercultural experience. It is our sincere hope that this enhanced, peer-reviewed version of one of our AI entries, titled Simulating OZ Moments in the Classroom with the BARNGA Activity, can constitute a useful example of an actionable strategy for bringing IC learning into the language classroom.
Please cite this article as follows:
Jactat, B. (2023). Simulating OZ Moments in the Classroom with the BARNGA Activity. In: J. Salazar & G. Benthien (Eds.), ICLE SIG 2nd Conference Peer-Reviewed Proceedings. (pp. 70-83) Retrieved from: https://icle.jalt.org/mod/page/view.php?id=154