Intercultural Teaching Competence of Student Teachers of English – Some Initial Remarks on Portfolio Assessment of Teaching Skills

With increased student mobility, exchange programs and migrations, language teachers are more likely to face the challenge of delivering instruction to multilingual classes, either at home or abroad. Thus, intercultural teaching competence should find its place into teacher training programs, in order to prepare a new generation of language teachers. The paper will report a questionnaire study investigating the perceived level of intercultural teaching competence.