Research on Intercultural Competence of Secondary School Students

Abstract

The paper considers the results of the didactic research conducted in 2004 and the ongoing results of the research conducted in 2017 aimed at identifying the state of intercultural awareness of secondary school students with an emphasis on stereotypes and prejudices in their thinking in order to assess whether there is a shift in these areas and whether these changes should be addressed in curricula and learning materials.

Keywords

• teaching of German as a foreign language
• intercultural communication
• intercultural competence
• prejudices
• stereotypes