“Intercultural attitudes (savoir être): curiosity and openness, readiness to suspend disbelief about other cultures and belief about one’s own This means a willingness to relativize one’s own values, beliefs and behaviors, not to assume that they are the only possible and naturally correct ones, and to be able to see how they might look from an outsider’s perspective who has a different set of values, beliefs and behaviors. This can be called the ability to ‘decentre’ “. (Peter Praxmarer, 2009).

The difficulty that language educators face is assessing this attitude. And this was the core of my presentation in New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology/ Boston/ MA (October 11, 2018): Assessing “Savoir Etre”

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