Progress in language teaching

The article maintains that language teaching has to include the teaching of cross- or intercultural dialogic competencies. Cross-cultural competencies are often linked to the field of cross- or intercultural pragmatics. Yet, most approaches to pragmatics are hardly suitable to discover what language use is all about. We are in need of a dialogic holistic model, integrating all facets of language use. The theory set up by Weigand (2010) integrating the human abilities of speaking, thinking, and perceiving, is a convincing approach to be taken as the basis of teaching intercultural competence within language teaching. I will first sketch the development of the goals of language learning and teaching in common, then turn to intercultural communicative competence and then depict Weigand’s dialogic approach, the so-called Mixed Game Model (MGM).