The intercultural professional training of students of the Spanish major in China

Abstract

Interculturality as a management model for cultural diversity finds in education an axis to influence the other institutions of the educational communities. Hence, it has been used to investigate communication problems between people of different cultures and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the field of education. Therefore, intercultural training is one of the challenges of contemporary higher education, as it is an aspect of great importance and relevance due to its contribution to the comprehensive training of professionals. The objective of this article was to make an approximation to the process of intercultural professional training in the students of the Spanish Course of the University of Linyi, China. At the empirical level, documentary analysis was used in international databases for the collection of information Scielo, Latindex, Redalyc, Dialnet, Ebsco Host, Scopus and Google Scholar. The terms intercultural training and intercultural competence in foreign languages ​​were used as the main search engine. The analysis of the normative documents of the Spanish career of the University was also carried out, to verify the treatment of intercultural training and its contents. The unstructured interview was applied to teachers in the communication area of ​​the Spanish major. It was found that the Spanish manuals do not address intercultural training, teachers have deficiencies in this regard, although there is recognition of the importance of intercultural training in Spanish as a foreign language in the Chinese context.