ES competencia pluricultural / CAT competència pluricultural / FR compétence pluriculturelle / DE plurikulturelle Kompetenz

In the CEFR (2001 and 2018), pluricultural competence is presented as intrinsically linked to plurilingual competence, so the concept communicative competence is conceived as both plurilingual and pluricultural. The CEFR notes the need for

(…) learners as ‘social agents’ to draw upon all of their linguistic and cultural resources and experiences in order to fully participate in social and educational contexts, achieving mutual understanding, gaining access to knowledge and in turn further developing their linguistic and cultural repertoire (2018: 157).

Plurilingual and pluricultural competences imply the need to construct three kinds of abilities that provide feedback for each other: a pluricultural repertoire, pluricultural understanding, and a plurilingual repertoire. Therefore, discursive competence involves the development of this pluricultural competence.

References

• Consejo de Europa (2001). Marco común europeo de referencia para el aprendizaje, la enseñanza y la evaluación de lenguas. Madrid: Instituto Cervantes-Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte- Editorial/Anaya. Disponible en http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/marco/
• Consejo de Europa (2008). MAREP. Marco de referencia para los enfoques plurales de las lenguas y de las culturas. Estrasburgo: European Centre for Modern Languages (E. Martínez, E. Palau, J. Torres & A. Noguerol, Trad.)./ Bruselas: Consejo de Europa.
• Consejo de Europa (2018). Common European framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment. Companion volume with new descriptors. Estrasburgo: Council of Europe Publishing. Disponible en https://rm.coe.int/common-european-framework-of-reference-forlanguages-earning-teaching/168074a4e2