Representations of interculturality : bridging the gap Between the culture of L1 and LL2

Abstract

The current study attempts to search for intercultural representations on an English text book used by students from six grade, using as an approach the qualitative study and as a research tradition action research. The data analyzed suggests that there is some general representation of interculturality, but manifests a latent gap between the culture of language 1 as no representation of it was explicited included. A gap between culture of language 2 and language 1 also attracted the interest of this study, which attempted to explore the way this gap might be bridged by proposing a parallel unit to the text book used by the students including aspects from the culture of language 1, which in this case is Colombian culture.