MEASURING INTERCULTURALITY OF EUROPEAN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

Abstract

This paper aims at measuring the intercultural skills of European pre-service teachers to analyze possible shortcomings and identify teaching needs in teacher training institutions. For that, we designed a survey to assess Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) following the criteria established by the European INCA Project, developed to evaluate ICC. The sample is made up of 113 participants, from 6 universities and 10 nationalities, whose answers were statistically analyzed. Results show that most European pre-service teachers participating remain in the third position out of four, which means that it is necessary to insist on the improvement of teacher training curricula to enhance future teachers’ ICC.