Abstract

FAJARDO SALINAS, Delia María. De la competencia comunicativa a la competencia intercultural: una propuesta teórica y didáctica para la educación intercultural en latinoamérica. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2011, vol.6, n.12, pp.5-38. ISSN 1870-4115.

This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of communicative competence proposed by Dell Hymes, including the main models for the analysis of this construct with an emphasis on the relevance acquired by the formulation of certain capabilities and attitudes to face the relationship with cultural difference within the framework of language teaching. This is the foundation for the development of a theoretical proposal about the concept of intercultural competence that may feasibly become the curricular core of a didactic proposal for intercultural education programs in Latin America. Cantero's model (2009) is noted among the most outstanding analysis models because of the novelty of his contribution with an approach that uses complexity theory to explain both the relationships among the elements integrating communicative competence and even more importantly the descriptive and normative potential of his analysis model for language teaching.

Keywords : communicative competence; intercultural competence; complexity; intercultural education; intercultural education model.