Developing Intercultural Competence with Linguistic Landscape & M-learning

This paper discusses a basic scenario of m-learning activities for a situated in-the-field examination of cultural diversity with the Linguistic Landscape approach, i.e. a systematic examination of written displays of minority languages in the public space. Enabling learners to participate in content exchange via the Web 2.0 paradigm, where learners act both as both media consumers and media creators, can be used to raise their cultural awareness through empirical hand-on exploration of the surrounding linguistic reality in a local environment. Exploration of cultural diversity conducted in the framework of connectivism using m-learning activities can be used to demonstrate that cultural awareness tends to be heavily influenced by personal perspectives and common stereotypes. Autonomous discovery of that phenomenon from the pedagogical perspective of authentic and informal learning results in an increased cultural awareness, which elevates participants’ intercultural competence.