Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism-Languages for social cohesion ; Les langues pour la cohésion

.".....Skopinskaja (2003) considered the role of culture in foreign language teaching materials from the perspective of intercultural competence; Facciol and Kjartansson (2003) developed a number of tests to assess intercultural competence; Camilleri Grima (2002) tried to introduce intercultural competence in language learning as a way of solving communication problems through the use of stories and anecdotes; and, finally, Zarate et al. (2003) dealt with topics such as cultural sensitivity (sensibilisation Culturelle), empathy (empathie), hospitality (l’hospitalité) and representation of otherness and the other (représentations du concept d’altérité and des Autres) in their project about cultural mediation in language teaching." Plurilingual and pluricultural awareness in language teacher education; A training kit"Edited by Mercè Bernaus, Ana Isabel Andrade, Martine Kervran, Anna Murkowska and Fernando Trujillo Sáe