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Europe counts on Intercultural Communication to survive under better conditions. Since May 2004, we have been watching a cultural amalgam increase significantly with the entrance of the ten new countries in the European Union; and in 2007, with the enlargement to Bulgaria and Romania, we see this evolution at its prime. Never have we assisted to such an increase of contacts among European Nations and the phenomenon of acculturation is developing under new forms. Learning and teaching languages under these conditions is becoming more and more essential, so that a healthy coexistence among all European peoples can occur. This paper is based on the belief that there is a tendency to what we might call a “European identity and culture with the Generation E”. When we come to think about Intercultural Communication, we have to focus on subject matters such as different cultures connections. Questions such as how a culture can survive without interpenetration of other cultures or intermixing of different cultural traits and the role that learning and teaching a L2, L3 or even a L4 can have in the new tendencies of Intercultural Communication are raised here.
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18th SPACE Annual Conference
and EURASHE-SEPHE Seminar
21-24 March 2007
Thursday 22 March 2007
Keywords
Learning / teaching languages Europe Intercultural communication
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto