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When Danish comes into being — a key to Danish cultural concepts
Gyldensteensvej 2, 5400 Bogense
Danish
Lecture by Astrid Mus Rasmussen, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture — Department of German and Romance Languages, Aarhus University and Noah Rørbæk, PhD student at the Department of Communication and Culture — Department of German and Romance Languages, Aarhus University
In this paper, the research project When Danish Becomes To is presented, which is funded by the Velux Foundation.
The overall aim of the project is to develop an online learning resource that supports the development of intercultural communicative competence in the teaching of Danish as a second language for adult migrants. The resource contains, on the one hand, a cultural reference work with key cultural key concepts and norms of communication described in a completely simple and easy-to-translate language, called Minimaldan. On the other hand, it contains learning activities, which are related to these descriptions. With this resource, we want to make complicated, culture-specific and easy-to-translate words and communication norms available to students at a relatively early stage of their Danish lessons. The resource we support learners in the cultural encounters that are part of their everyday lives and provides them with tools to navigate the challenges that meeting a new culture with implied norms and unwritten rules can create.
In this paper, we focus on the cultural reference work. We will explain the methods of the project and provide examples of the above-mentioned descriptions of cultural keywords and communication norms. In addition, we will provide an overall status of the project's development as well as the next steps.
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