Results: Intercultural Competence in Modern Foreign Language Teacher Education

In this chapter, I address research questions 9a and 9b on the survey given to language teachers, which focus on the MFL teachers’ background knowledge about intercultural competence. Question 9a asked: Was intercultural competence addressed during your university studies? The teachers had four answer options: yes, no, don’t know and no comment. Question 9b asked: Do you associate particular scholars with intercultural competence? Teachers were provided with the names of five well-known intercultural competence scholars (Byram, Fantini, Savignon, Spencer-Oatey and Ting-Toomey) and could also type in their own choice of names in a free-text field. They were welcome to choose as many names as they liked and also to add as many additional names as they wished.