Suggested teaching practices to turn TEFL into TEIC
The present paper suggests modifications that should be made in an English language classroom in order for the current TEFL paradigm to be switched into a TEIC paradigm. The reason why this shift from one paradigm to the other is regarded as necessary has to do with the fact that learners from different cultural backgrounds attend this English language class.
After the presentation of the teaching context, the author provides the theoretical framework for both TEFL and TEIC. She analyses the current teaching practices in TEFL, and for each one of them she recommends the changes that need to be made in order for intercultural communication to take place in the lessons and the TEIC paradigm to substitute the TEFL paradigm.
Index Terms: TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), TEIC (Teaching English for Intercultural Communication), multicultural classroom.
