What is plurilingual and pluricultural competence?
Alexandra - Applied Linguistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEViZZbBDL8

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0:01 hi welcome back this is the third video of our series on plal lingual and pl cultural competence you can watch the previous videos by clicking on the link
0:10 in the top right corner as always the references are in the description last time we talked about plur lingual practices and briefly
0:18 mentioned PL lingual competences today we're going to dive to the core of the matter by investigating what plural lingual and pl cultural competence is
0:27 PPC for Simplicity let's start by explaining what a competence is one definition I really
0:36 like is from Chen and ELO they call competence a dynamic chain of actions depending on context and objectives it means that more than knowledge what is
0:48 important is how we think and act on our knowledge Now language can be isolated we use language to communicate with others and communication relies heavily
1:00 on cultural aspects in that respect it is useful to Define communicative competence it can be seen as a quote complex body of knowledge skills
1:12 attitudes and values that can be used to act and interact with others in a specific cultural environment using language this is from cost and his
1:22 colleagues in 2009 we all rely heavily on context culture history and suround when communicating if we don't know about
1:33 this we can never fully understand our interlocutors language learning is not enough to grasp the cultural aspects necessary to develop communicative
1:44 competence so the obvious solution would be to teach culture we can now say that plural lingualism is a unique and complex
1:56 competence instead of the sum of several monolingual compet this is what we call PPC PPC admits that a person can have
2:07 varying proficiency and language abilities between their different languages even if language and culture are stronger Concepts when brought up
2:17 together PPC allows for a person to be very proficient in a language without knowledge of the associated culture or the opposite PBC can be seen as both a
2:29 language teaching tool and a language use goal next time we'll see examples of this with the benefits PPC has in practice