Competencia comunicativa intercultural en las escuelas rurales de Cundinamarca.

Abstract

This qualitative action research studied orientations from the rural English teacher practice that promotes the development of the communicative intercultural competences where the English teaching learning process is carried out in a traditional way, focusing in a linguistic aspect instead of a communicative approach where the culture and language should be taught simultaneously to educate global citizens. The general objective was: To suggest orientations from the rural English teaching pedagogical practice to foster the intercultural communicative competences in the English language learning process in the rural education in Cundinamarca Colombia, by means and qualitative action research that focus on the educative and social aspects through the observation of the rural English teachers pedagogical practice to know the different methods to teach English in the students learning process and the relation with the intercultural communicative competences in the classroom. The socio critic paradigm was the guide in this research because it allowed to take the community problems and transform the inequalities and understand the power relations and the social dynamics that had influence in the education, linked with the culture and society integrated for the rural English teachers of Cundinamarca, among the results there is a disarticulation between bilingual public policies, the suggested curriculum and the English rural teacher pedagogical practices, therefore it is necessary to be more explicit with the suggested Ministerio de Education National curriculum in the development of the intercultural communicate competence, in order to involve culture in the pedagogical practice as a part of the English language learning process.Among the findings, the rurality of the educative context persists, as do traditional pedagogical teacher practices and limitations, related with educative resources and connectivity. the contributios of the investigation was the innovation of the concept of intercultural communicative competence, linked to the concept of interculturality, getting relevance in the learning teacher pedagogical practice.