An intercultural approach to learning material design for English classrooms

Abstract

The design of educational resources is fundamental for the development of the communicative competence within an intercultural learning environment. The aim of this revision is to identify the defining criteria for resources properly adjusted to the aforementioned process.  This tool design is a time-consuming labor, which requires a thorough analysis of the students´ necessities, the prior knowledge they can possess, the particularities of their context and the goals they could have stablished at the outset. To achieve significant learning, such materials must adapt to the demands of interculturality